Pink sidewalk ramp with yellow graffiti saying “FART”. A woman’s legs in pink leggings and pink shoes, and a pink purse, are also visible in frame

"And One day too, this shall pass or, it won't" is written on a spray painted concrete barrier on a vacant lot. A spray painted wall lies behind. A pillow with pink flowers lies in the foreground.

or, it wont

St. Louis, MO. March 2026.

#Photography #STL #FoundWords

Daily Practice of Belief When a quiet routine turns uncertainty into a body of work.

My newest Substack post on belief and daily art practice.
open.substack.com/pub/througha...

Cheers!

It's pretty amazing how many times I've seen these episodes since I was a young kid and how I continue to find new ways to engage and relate to them as I grow older.

The Game (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia

Re-watching TNG and it feels strangely coincidental to encounter 1991's "The Game" the same week Meta and Google are found liable in the social media addiction trial. Wesley Crusher resists an addictive game (which essentially has an endless mindless scroll) while his elders all fall victim.

A person sitting in a chair holds a sign that reads "Guardians of Pedophiles." The sign fully obscures their body. Circular blue and green shapes lie to their left on a playground.

Two elderly women sit on a raised flower bed in front of a one-story building. One woman holds a sign reading "No more family separation."

A man in a Mexican lucha libre mask stands next to a storefront. The store window features an Easter illustration of two bunnies carrying a basket of eggs and two carrots. The bunny ears and carrots mimic the shape of the man's mask.

Documenting No Kings 3 in Omaha, NE

#Photography #Omaha

A storage business with the sign "Broadway Storage" sits in the foreground at left. Large blue and green cylindrical liquid storage containers loom behind the building at right. An orange porta-potty sits at far right in front of the containers.

Fremont, NE. February 2026.

#Photography #NewTopographics #Nebraska

A Polaroid instant film image of a group of old pier pilings on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. The image has a monochrome blue color from using the Polaroid Reclaimed Blue special edition film.

"Columbia River Pilings". Made with Polaroid Reclaimed Blue film. #polaroid #instantfilm

A torched car covered in graffiti lies next to a river. A railroad bridge is visible in the distance.

legacy of car travel

In the distance lies the MacArthur Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Today it carries trains, but the bridge once had an upper deck with a roadway. Route 66 used the bridge between 1929 and 1955. It closed to vehicles in 1981.

#Photography #STL

The text "Why?!" painted in brown paint on the white exterior of a building. Paint from the words drips down the wall. Black paint from graffiti above the word also drips down the wall.

why

St. Louis, MO. March 2026.

#Photography #STL #FoundWords

A blue and yellow train car sit on tracks beside a road. The Gateway Arch rises behind them in the distance. Two guide wires in yellow sheaths from a telephone pole cut through the image in the foreground.

East St. Louis, IL. March 2026.

#Photography #STL

BARRACK ROAD I’ve never been a fan of football; growing up on the Isle of Man, we have no real involvement in the UK national leagues, so for me, watching football was invariably just an excuse to go to t…

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'The Beautiful Game'...

At left, a woman in a red winter hat pulls a hand truck toward a crosswalk on a street corner illuminated by the late afternoon sun. Three blue planters lie behind her. At right sits a boarded up storefront with a red awning. The shadow of the sun on the storefront matches the shape of the woman.

St. Louis, MO. March 2026.

#Photography #STL

A boarded up food mart convenience store with heavily weathered siding. Black spray paint across the store reads, "Love is the flower you've got to let grow..."

Love is the flower you've got to let grow...

Route 66, CA. February 2019.

#Photography #FoundWords

Opinion | The Badlands Hold Me as I Grieve

Few people can put words and photographs to a page like Rebecca Norris Webb

The Solitary Architecture of Art Careers: Thriving with Community

New on my Substack. The Solitary Architecture of Art Careers: open.substack.com/pub/througha...
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View into a pickup truck from the front. A woman and man sit in the cab. A rock guard on hood reads, "Skull fucker."

🤟

Omaha, NE. March 2026.

#Photography #Omaha #OmahaStreets #FoundWords

Black spray painting on a red brick wall that reads, "Gots to see it through my boy."

Gots to see it through my boy

Kansas City, MO. October 2025.

#Photography #KansasCity #FoundWords

an abandoned church in grenville, new mexico

🎞️ kodak gold

Cheers, that means a lot coming from you, Jim.

A weathered sign with handwritten text reads, "All I Want is for Morals, Honer [misspelled], and Love For God and Country to be Real Again!"

Morals, honer, and love for God and country

This one put me in a quandary. I found this sign crumpled and only half-visible in the hedge behind where it lays here. For my found words project, is it cheating to move it? Ethical dilemmas...

Omaha, NE. February 2026.

#Omaha #FoundWords

An extra layer of irony being that the US/UK-backed coup in 1953 was a key catalyst for the 1979 revolution

Sign on the edge of a sinkhole downtown that reads, "Dear 67th St. sinkhole: you think you're cute getting all the attention huh?? Well, you're nothing but a sidepiece sinkhole!

Sinkhole drama heating up here in Omaha.

Also: Sidepiece Sinkhole isn't a bad band name.

#Omaha #OmahaStreets

YES! Need to make another trip west

lmao, the later part of your take was along the lines of what I was thinking when I ran across this painting (how they imagine they are being viewed by others).

The original might unironically be one of my favorite paintings.

Illustration of a bare-chested man flexing his bicep while six men in different hair styles watch. Overlaid text reads “Operation Epic Fury.”

I'm still working on a project pairing historic paintings with new context.

This one features Osmar Schindler’s Muskelspiel (Muscle Flexing), 1907.

1. Two children sitting on a sofa with eyes closed. One of them is holding a videogame controller 2. Two taxidermy fawns, posed as if living in a museum case.

A big question for any artist is "When is it finished?". Often, the answer is "Well, never really - but at some point you just have to stop working on it."

My mum passing away a few weeks ago felt like a good place to stop with my project "Museum", & call it Finished.

www.damoncharles.com/museum