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Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
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(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.

Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.

Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
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Color photograph looking up at a night sky with patches of clouds and some stars visible
January 14, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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St. Paul, Minnesota, May 2023
Color photograph looking across a broad empty parking lot at night, everything around is nearly black, and a lone streetlight at the end of the light shines a deep orange light over the asphalt, illuminating the tops of a few trees by the base of the pole so they almost look like wings
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Detroit, near Forest & Grandy
Color photograph of a tree at night under bright street lights, a twisty catalpa tree with broad leaves along the base and some bare branches around the top and stretching off to the right
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Abstract No. 2
Abstract black ink drawing
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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Abstract No. 1
Abstract black ink drawing
January 10, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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sky
Photo of night sky full of patchy textured cloud cover
January 9, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph of an empty asphalt parking lot at night. A streetlight at the other end of the parking lot is glowing soft orange light across the lot. In the foreground, at your feet, there's a square of cement with a manhole in the middle of it
January 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking at a closed car wash at night. Bright white lights along shine down over a wide rectangular building painted blue with a yellow stripe in the middle, some orange traffic cones long the right and an orange-ish street light off in the background. The sky and foreground are very dark, nearly black
January 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Found some good news
Text: Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Detroit/Pontiac MI 1134 AM EST Mon Jan 5 2026 .KEY MESSAGES... - A warming trend gets underway today as high temperatures rise above freezing for the first time since December 29th.
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking across a darkened residential street at night at the front of a small house with its porch light on
January 1, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Heat (1995)

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Black ink drawing of a couple of beer bottles Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television Black ink drawing of a boxy black CRT television with antennae sticking up out the back and a remote control and a clear glass tumbler with a small amount of dark liquid in it
December 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 6 (2017)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Shockproof (1949)
E. T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)

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Black ink drawing of a screwdriver stuck in something and standing upright with a rubber grip handle and a braided leather tassel Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television Black ink drawing of an old-timey payphone on a wall Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television
December 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Here's a thread of my year in drawings of objects from films

Mr Vampire II (1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dead Calm (1989)

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Black ink drawing of a film camera on a tripod with a big flash on top Black ink drawing of a boxy old CRT television with a remote control sitting on top of it Black ink drawing of a shiny black rotary telephone with no dial next to a a shiny clear glass ash tray Black ink drawing of a Walkman with earphones cable next to it
December 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking down a residential street at night. Dark in the foreground, down the street a ways there are some tall trees with a bright streetlight among them, illuminating an archway of green leaves and branches over the street. Another pool of light further down the road
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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scratch paper
Photograph of a piece of paper with part lots of mostly straight line black ink scribbles all around a partially finished drawing of a utility pole and power lines
December 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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sky
Color photograph of a dramatically cloudy night sky, all grays and whites and blacks, with some messy bare branches of a tree in the lower right corner. The photograph looks monochrome but it isn’t
December 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Color photograph of former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith getting Gatorade poured on him by players. Lovie is standing in his gray coach’s polo, and players Lance Briggs and Alex Brown are wearing white Bears uniforms without helmets, holding an orange Gatorade cooler over Lovie’s shoulders, the water only just splashing into him. Others people are standing around them, a stadium full of people in the background
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#138 Pearl Beach, MI
#139 Pearl Beach, MI
#140 Ypsilanti, MI

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#135 Detroit, Marcus Ave
#136 Ypsilanti, MI
#137 Norwood, MA

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#132 Detroit, Carbon Works
#133 Ferndale, MI
#134 Ferndale, MI

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of utility poles and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Here's a thread of my Power Lines Drawings from this year

#128 Ferndale, MI
#129 Huntington Woods, MI
#130 Madison Heights, MI
#131 Ferndale, MI

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a three utility poles and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking across a residential street at night. The street is empty and brightly lit by a streetlight. Across the street, a house is set back quite a ways from the street (at the end of a little horseshoe shaped inlet thing), deep in the shadows beyond the reach of the streetlight, so you see a front door with bright lights on either side of it off in the distance and surrounded by darkness
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Dort Mall, Flint, Michigan
December 2025
Color photograph of a Christmas display in a large empty room. A Christmas tree nicely decorated with lights and tinsel and with presents underneath stands next to an empty red and white chair, surrounded by a yellow chain barrier suspended by black stanchions. A blank white wall behind them, and a somewhat shiny bland tile floor reflects some of the Christmas lights
December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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More Objects from Films (Heat [1995])

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Black ink drawing of a boxy black CRT television with antennae sticking up out the back and a remote control and a clear glass tumbler with a small amount of dark liquid in it
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking down a curved residential street at night. The street curves to the left between some trees, an obscured streetlight shining down over a patch of pavement and some trees surrounded by darkness above and all around
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM