Robert Matejcek

Untitled Large Format Photographs with Microphone  - analog photographs - paper negatives - 4 minute & 12 second exposures +/-, hand-built cardboard box camera, wollensak 127mm enlarger lens, caffenol developer - robert matejcek -2026

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?” - Lawrence Durrell - Justine (The Alexandria Quartet No. 1)

Untitled Large Format Photographs with Barometer  - analog photographs - paper negatives - 2 second & 10 second exposures +/-, hand-built cardboard box camera, wollensak 127mm enlarger lens, caffenol developer - robert matejcek -2026

“These are the days, it never rains, but it pours... ” - Queen & David Bowie  - Under Pressure

Tableaux Automatique: A Theory of Everything (Abr.) - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

"We live in a bewildering world." - Stephen Hawking.

Untitled Botanical Studies with Hydrangea - analog photographs - paper negative, 1 second - 2-minute exposures +/-, hand-built cardboard box camera, unknown projector lens & aluminum can pinhole camera, caffenol developer - robert matejcek - 2025

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. " - Abraham Lincoln

Tableaux Automatique: High-Water Mark - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

“…and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” - Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

After Nature: Untitled Data Model No. Two (Pecan Tree, English Ivy, Northern Cardinal, White-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren) - mixed media frame animation - robert matejcek - 2025

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” - Theodore Roethke

After Nature: Untitled Data Model No. One (Pecan Tree, English Ivy, Northern Cardinal, White-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren) - mixed media frame animation - robert matejcek - 2025

"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay." - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Untitled Botanical Study (Lumen Print of Marigold) and Solargraph (36-hour exposure) - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed with sun, and with him rise weeping.“ - William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale

Untitled Botanical Study (Lumen Print of Rosemary) and Solargraph (12-hour exposure) - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance: pray, love, remember.“ - William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Untitled Solargraph (06.16.25 - 06.17.25) - 23-hour exposure - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley

Tableaux Automatique: Into Flames - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

“Well, it burned while I cried… 'Cause I heard it screamin' out your name… Your name…" - Adele - Set Fire to the Rain

Tableaux Noir: Bringing Down the Horse - mixed media (N.T.S. diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

"But all of these horses… That you chase around… In the end they are the ones… That always bring you down…" - The Wallflowers - Invisible City

Untitled Mixed-Media Cyanotype with Made & Found Objects - cyanotype (5-minute exposure on cotton) botanicals (wheat) & burlap bag - robert matejcek - 2025

“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,’ thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.” - Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Untitled Character Portraits with Found Objects (Matches, Matchboxes, Beads, & Fibers) - tea-toned cyanotype photograms (5 minute solar exposures) on watercolor paper - robert matejcek - 2025

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” - Vincent van Gogh

Untitled Cyanotype Still Life with Found Objects (John James Audubon Print & Blue Jay Feathers) - cyanotype photogram (5 minute solar exposure) on watercolor paper - robert matejcek - 2025

"Hold tight to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

Untitled Lumen Study with Sweet William and Seed Packet - lumen print photogram (45 minute solar exposure) - b/w photo paper - robert matejcek - 2025

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Untitled Mixed-Media Photographs with Made & Found Objects (Reproduced Vintage Seed Packets [tea-toned cyanotypes, 5 minute exposures on recycled paper] botanicals, clothespin, & twine) - robert matejcek - 2025

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.” - Victor Hugo - Les Misérables