Phlegm-Flam-Film - New Work by Chris Merlick

MFA Gallery presents "Phlegm-Flam-Film" featuring new work by Chris Merlick. This show opens Sat Nov 7 with a reception for the artist and will run till Dec 27. Multi-disciplinarian Chris Merlick debuts his visual arts talent in this show of his photography. Chris comments: "I am a lifelong photography nerd. It compels me to notice my environment more deliberately, seeing beauty and strangeness in the world. I started shooting film in the 80s, went digital in the 2000s and spent the next two decades keeping up with technology. But now I don't want my camera making decisions for me, In 2022 my daughter expressed an interest in film photography and I found myself going back to my roots. I prefer one or two carefully composed shots to twenty frames fired in a second. Shooting film makes me slow down and pay attention. It's a more present way of seeing the world. I have a particular fondness for double exposures. I like the ambiguity and the possibilities that putting two things together c