Stephan Sagmiller

www.StephanSagmiller.com

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Sketching out some new ideas...    Sustain,  2015

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untitled v1, 2011

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Quote from Nietzsche, “Glass Eye.— A gift for moral subjects, characters, motives directed upon the beautiful soul of a work of art is sometimes only the glass eye which the artist who lacks a beautiful soul inserts into himself: the consequence can be, though rarely is, that this eye at length becomes living nature, even if somewhat jaundiced nature—the usual consequence, however, is that all the world thinks it sees nature where there is only glass” (Human All Too Human, bk. 2, sec. 151)

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Untitled, 2008

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Anna Wierzbicka on Mice.

People call them Mice--People think that they are all of the same kind-- Because they come from other creatures of the same kind

People think they live in or near places where people live--Because they want to eat things that people keep for people to eat--People don't want them to live there.

A Person could hold one easily in one hand-- (most people wouldn't want to hold them).

They have short legs--because of this when they move you can't see their legs moving and it seems as if their whole body touches the ground.

Their head looks as if it were not a separate part of the body-- The whole body looks like one small thing with a long thin hairless tail--It has a few stiff hairs sticking out sideways--There are two round ears sticking up one on each side of the head--They have small sharp teeth that they bite things with.      - Wierzbicka

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Herzog on nature

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Untitled II, 2014

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Enjoying my new strobes.   Greenwear Brand Paper Plates and Plastic Forks, 2014

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*Archive | River rescue, Glacier National Park 2012

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*Archive | AM Photo club, Glacier National Park 2012

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*Archive | Ice flow Mt. Rainier National Park 2012

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*Archive | Swiss lodge, Glacier National Park 2012

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From my sketchbook, "The Creative Impulse."  A redacted George lucas biography. 

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A Catalog for my show "The Clouds" is available on the Griffin Museum website.  http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/product/stephan-sagmiller-exhibition-catalog/

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Head With No Shadow, after Lichtenstein

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"Some speak of a return to nature. I wonder where they could have been." Fredrick Sommer

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Rephoto Series #1

Last week I received and email with from RISD Grad/Photographer Stephan Sagmiller that contained the top picture of the Tea Pot and Kettle, buttes near Green River Wy. He mentioned that he was passing by and saw this hotel next to these great rock formations. He took a picture to send to me because it struck him as something I might take a picture of. Turns out I had been there several times before. Taking pictures and trying to understand why someone thought that this was a good place to build a hotel.

This is also a site that was part of the rephotographic survey of the 70s, originally taken by Timothy O Sullivan then a hundred years later by Mark Klett, Gordon Bushaw and some other good folks who names I cant retrieve.

I have been making photos in some really remote and boring areas. Out of the way places that you would think would never have the problem of being rephotographed either on purpose or by chance. It has happen several times. This delights me and I am finding more of them now that there are more and more pictures on the internet. Part of me loves to be part of a larger ongoing discussion. I also love being able to see another artist’s decisions of a place that I have scouted.  I feel possessive of these places while enjoying the synchronicity. 

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This is way outside the realm of coincidence.