gloaming

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

Decagon #23343

Self-made lens, black and white 35mm film :: 4524 × 3000 px :: romandrits.com :: @romandrits

Untitled. Riga, 2006

an ending, a beginning

Miroirs

Echoes from Metamorphoses One + Two, mixed with original analog photography, glitched, liquified, and metamorphosed.

Collaboration by roman drits (@romandrits) and muradon (@muradon13), 2022.

Metamorphose Three #191

Analog film photography, developed by hand, merged and overlayed in multiple exposures by code.

Collaboration by roman drits (@romandrits) and muradon (@muradon13), 2022.

Metamorphose One #1

Analog film photography, developed by hand, deconstructed and merged back by bits of code yearning for color.

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Collaboration by roman drits (@romandrits) and muradon (@muradon13), 2022.

Metamorphose Two #1

Two Hearted River || Original Image - From Series of Rejected Negatives, 2010 || Digitally Retouched, 2021 || A collaboration by Adam Disbrow (@__AD_AD__) & Roman Drits (@romandrits)

Two Hearted River

Metamorphose Three #185

Metamorphose Three

Metamorphose One #4

Metamorphose One

Metamorphose Two #4

Metamorphose Two

Postlude :: Riga, Latvia :: romandrits.com :: @romandrits :: 2006 :: 2021

Postlude

Hic et Nunc

god may be around

Versum

Concordances – Venice. The last hours

Analog Photography x Digital Painting, 2022

Anibal Argañaraz (@Anibal_Ar13) and Roman Drits (@romandrits).

‘This is the way, and in my case the why, I set my eyes on this city. There is nothing Freudian to this fantasy, or specifically chordate, although some evolutionary-if not plainly atavistic-or autobiographical connection could no doubt be established between the pattern a wave leaves upon the sand and its scrutiny by a descendant of the ichthyosaur, and a monster himself.’

— Joseph Brodsky “Fondamenta degli incurabili”

The last hours

A collaborative series of artworks between Anibal Argañaraz (@Anibal_Ar13) and Roman Drits (@romandrits).

"The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time..."
from: "The Garden of Forking Paths"- J. L. Borges

The time and the garden

Concordances

TENDENCY TOWARD TACTILITY

TENDENCY TOWARD EQUILIBRIUM

Tendencies

Revelation (Satoshi)

Revelation

Instx 11

Fujifilm Instax, 2021 :: romandrits.com :: @romandrits

Instx 9

Instx

Nightfall (pastoral)

"Description is revelation. It is not / The thing described, nor false facsimile. / It is an artificial thing that exists, / In its own seeming, plainly visible"​ —Wallace Stevens

~ 2024

Seeming as being

Abyss of the birds

Metamorphose X

indestructibility of the already felt ~ 2023

indestructibility of the already felt

Elusive fragments of time and indecisive moments.

Incidental scratch on film emulsion :: Original analog photograph :: Riga, Latvia :: 2006 :: 2022

Crack

there/then

~ 2022 :: 2023

All proceeds, including any future royalties, are automatically donated to #tezquakeaid.

VBRTN

Tabula rasa

Ludus

for whom the bell tolls ~ film photography, 35mm black and white film, double exposed, self-developed, scanned and digitally retouched ~ latvia ~ 2024

for whom the bell tolls

ø~e

A collaboration between Nate Hill & Roman Drits

Gull Song

A meditative glimpse into the Northern Fort in the city of Liepāja, Latvia: eroded remnants of a 19th-century Tsarist defense legacy. A collaborative series of artworks between Nate Hill and Roman Drits.

Whispering Waves

Northern Fort

Excerpt from Robert Johnson's Lost Diary - RJ0202K1S

Krasnoselsk, Belarus (or Unknown Village) - January 2, 1932

"Stumbled upon an unfinished edifice today — a relic of dreams interrupted, standing defiantly amidst the barren landscape. It echoed a loneliness that resonated with my soul, like a chord left hanging in the air. The sparse woodland surrounding it felt like silent witnesses to forgotten tales. As I played, I couldn't help but think of my own unfinished symphonies, the choices made and those looming ahead. Here, where past and present intertwine, my music is both refuge and reckoning."

RJ0202K1S

Collab by Mikey Wilson & Roman Drits, ‘The Lost Archive’ speculates on the imagined 1930s Eastern European travels of blues icon Robert Johnson, blending restored imagery & imagined history to unfold unseen tales & untold artistry.

Excerpt from Robert Johnson's Diary:

Date Unknown - Location Unknown

"Came upon a solitary rock in the midst of nothingness, as if it were the earth's sole monument in this void. Sat down and played the blues, the stone cold under my touch, the sky vast above me.

This rock, standing alone — is it nature's art or just a piece of the world left unshaped by human hands? Some might pay a fortune for a hunk of stone if told it's art, while others would pass it by without a glance, not knowing the cost.

I pondered, as my music soared and fell with the contours of the rock, does the value of something lie in what folks are willing to pay, or is it in the story it tells, the feelings it stirs? My guitar, it don't look like much, but the tales it weaves are richer than any coin.

Out here, with my blues for company, I reckon that worth ain't about the price tag. It's in the echoes left behind, the resonance in a stranger's soul, the mark on a world too vast to see it all.

So I played on, the notes wrapping around the stone, binding it in a melody that maybe, just maybe, turned it into a masterpiece — priceless and fleeting in the grand expanse."

RJ09TZRCK (“TezRock Blues”)

The Lost Archive

romandrits

Collaboration between Anna Art Monochrome and Roman Drits, 2024.

La Procession Crépusculaire

Collaboration between  Anna Art Monochrome and Roman Drits.

Collaboration between Anna Art Monochrome and Roman Drits, 2023.

Arc de Triomphe

entre deux

analog photography ~ salaspils, latvia ~ 2006 :: 2024

untitled (resonance)

untitled (spectrum)

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analog photography ~ riga, latvia ~ 2008 :: 2024

untitled (rescue)

analog photography, 2006–2024. collection minted in collaboration with @tezvendsmachine.

romandrits

romandrits

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