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"...There Is Still Poetry" collages
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![Over and Over and, 2018 Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_Over_and_over_and_600x600.jpg?v=1680484556)
Over and Over and, 2018
![Endgame, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_endgame_600x600.jpg?v=1680484585)
Endgame, 2018
![On Being Blue, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_On_being_blue_600x600.jpg?v=1680484642)
On Being Blue, 2018
![Ore Transport Station, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_ore_transport_station_Mary_Mattingly_600x600.jpg?v=1680484691)
Ore Transport Station, 2018
![Manufacturing A Rise And Fall, 2018 Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_Manufacturing_a_Rise_and_Fall_A_Rose_and_Fell_600x600.jpg?v=1680568849)
Manufacturing A Rise And Fall, 2018
![Abandoned Mine Texas 2, 2018 Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_The_Peace_of_Wild_Things_Abandoned_Mine_2_600x600.jpg?v=1680484713)
Abandoned Mine Texas 2, 2017
![Enough is When is Enough, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_enough_is_when_is_enough_600x600.jpg?v=1680568782)
Enough Is When Is Enough, 2018
![Eagle Mine in the Morning, 2016 Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_The_Peace_of_Wild_Things_Eagle_Mine_Morning_600x600.jpg?v=1680484733)
Eagle Mine in the Morning, 2016
![Abandoned Mine Texas, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_The_Peace_of_Wild_Things_Abandoned_Mine_USA_600x600.jpg?v=1680484763)
Abandoned Mine Texas, 2017
![Phosphate Mine, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_The_Peace_of_Wild_Things_Phosphate_Fl_600x600.jpg?v=1680484787)
Phosphate Mine, 2018
![Between Bears Ears and Daneros Mine, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/40x40_between_bears_ears_and_Daneros_Uranium_MIne_600x600.jpg?v=1680484816)
Between Bears Ears and Daneros Mine, 2018
![Silence Contained for Years, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_Reverse_Logistics_600x600.jpg?v=1680568684)
A Silence Contained for Years, 2018
![Ash Flower, 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_Ash_Flower_600x600.jpg?v=1680568723)
Ash Flower, 2018
![Holding Not Having (After Robin Messing), 2018, Chromogenic Dye Coupler Print by Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_Holding_not_having__after_Robin_Messing_746b4de5-a649-4091-adb3-2b528467fed1_600x600.jpg?v=1680568914)
Holding Not Having (After Robin Messing), 2018
![I Held My Breath and Didn't Hear Anything, 2018 c. Mary Mattingly](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0638/3635/6845/files/30x30_I_held_my_breath_and_didnt_hear_anything_still_life_600x600.jpg?v=1680884586)
I Held My Breath and Didn't Hear Anything, 2018
Photography and contemporary art connect me to the complexities and contradictions of life largely removed from the supply chains that make it up: toxicities that I usually do not immediately see but may feel the aftermath of, the health impacts from, and the historic and psychological connections photography has with militarization. It’s also so much more, it’s memory, culture, storytelling.
It’s been quoted that at least 1.7 trillion digital photographs are taken every year now - a monumental cultural archive. I try to image some of the complexity I see in my studio and photographic practice as a reminder of the reverence I need to have for each image I take: my dependence on and reverence for storytelling through photographs.
While I live under an economic system that externalizes costs to the environment and the poor, how can I engage in other ways of bringing forth possibilities for being with (but not being paralyzed by) these deep contradictions? Every decision needs to be intentional, from a material ethic to forms of engaging with the world. Every photograph needs to be considered and valued for everything it holds, what is seen and unseen.