Photographs from 'From NY and NJ and Back' Photographic Series

A house is not a home. Or is it?

 

Above: Digital Photos Variable Dimensions Triada Samaras 2017

Photographs from 'From NY and NJ and Back' Photographic Series

This is one of my first cell phone photos taken a few years ago.
I remember I was on the NYC 'train nervously trying to figure out 'what I was doing'. I finally snapped the button and saw this image. In an instant I realized I did not care what I was doing anymore. Because I just wanted to be doing it. A lot of my art life has been that way in fact.

c. Triada Samaras 2017  Digital Photo Variable Dimensions

Photographs from 'From NY and NJ and Back' Photographic Series

This is an image taken of the semi-demolished Paterson Armory in New Jersey across the street from one of the schools where I work as an Art Professor in Residence for William Paterson Univeristy. It is a rather fantastic relic. The city wants to save this piece seen in the b &w photo. Not sure what for yet.....

 

 

 

 Above: Digital Photos Triada Samaras 2017

Photographs from 'From NY and NJ and Back' Photographic Series

A car in Brownstone Brooklyn under a fake electric moon looks like a mysterious and even menacing machine capable of starting up its engine quietly and driving away on its own into the snowy darkness. No?

Digital Photograph Triada Samaras 2017 Variable Dimensions

Another day in the Paterson NJ Public Schools.

Another day in the Paterson NJ Public Schools. This is middle school. The art teacher, Ms. Aimee Senopole did an amazing job getting these students to open up about themselves, using very inexpensive materials. I am inspired by these students; I really am. Paterson, NJ is a rough place to live. And public schools for these students often shine like beacons in some very rough areas with so little else going for them. Am I trying to say public school is important? Yes I am. I am saying it is CRITICAL. Use your imagination here. And is art education important? You be the judge.