1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,210 SPEAKER: Ten, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 2 00:00:04,230 --> 00:00:06,315 [Greenpoint--Brooklyn] 3 00:00:06,315 --> 00:00:08,400 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 4 00:00:08,420 --> 00:00:11,696 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 5 00:00:11,696 --> 00:00:18,872 [New York Close Up] 6 00:00:18,887 --> 00:00:20,970 MARIAH ROBERTSON: Come in. 7 00:00:23,712 --> 00:00:26,795 [Mariah Robertson--Artist] 8 00:00:26,795 --> 00:00:29,330 This is a dark room. 9 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:32,610 This is metallic paper, yeah. 10 00:00:32,630 --> 00:00:39,800 It’s a little bit thicker than regular photo paper and uh, it’s supposed to last a little bit longer. 11 00:00:39,820 --> 00:00:46,820 This is a very complicated piece here with... 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,820 These are bottles of chemistry. 13 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,820 This is my favorite brand which was just discontinued. 14 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:05,020 This is high breathe....yeah, very nice....and this little pump goes out the window and it pumps in fresh air. 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:13,190 But it’s...there’s like an open trench back here or an open ditch and it’s Greenpoint so the ground is toxic so it’s not like the best air, but... 16 00:01:13,210 --> 00:01:17,310 It’s better than being in here with a filter. 17 00:01:17,330 --> 00:01:20,410 It’s nice, right? 18 00:01:20,430 --> 00:01:30,505 ["Mariah Robertson Wears A Yellow Suit To Work"] 19 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:51,460 I’ve been working on this series of hand processed color work for the last two years. 20 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,640 It has been really exciting. 21 00:01:57,660 --> 00:02:04,830 In this one, the green is making these reds and these reds are making the blues, essentially. 22 00:02:04,850 --> 00:02:14,020 So it’s just amount...the amount of exposure and the colors that are… let me open it up all the way to see what I mean. 23 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,210 It was like this... 24 00:02:23,420 --> 00:02:35,480 At times it feels like really fully blossoming, you know working on this. But it’s also super toxic and uh, it’s with materials that are pretty obsolete. 25 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:45,570 Which at any minute could be discontinued so...so this thing that I’ve been doing for the last two years which has been really amazing to do, it’s got to come to an end soon. 26 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,920 Okay.... 27 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,270 That is a massive like leak coming from the window. 28 00:03:14,290 --> 00:03:24,270 Like normal color photographer dark room would be really bad...because it would screw up, make weird shifting and stuff but it doesn’t....it’s.... 29 00:03:24,290 --> 00:03:29,470 I have found that it’s...it’s okay. 30 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,850 Usually the work for me is like a problem solving set. 31 00:03:40,060 --> 00:03:47,080 And so the photography projects I do, they’re really all processes from within photography. 32 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:56,200 If you’re familiar with photographer culture it’s very like, things are mounted this way. 33 00:03:56,220 --> 00:04:01,390 They’re matted this way, use chemistry this way at this temperature and you like frame, you... 34 00:04:01,410 --> 00:04:03,400 You know like so many rules. 35 00:04:03,420 --> 00:04:07,600 So it’s really perfect for a little poking. 36 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:22,950 I like to take a system and then sort of bend the rules and change them and shake the system see like what the breaking points are and what the functional points are. 37 00:04:25,150 --> 00:04:28,310 Wow, this one's weird. 38 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:37,510 I wasn’t moving it around, but this area got...was in the chemicals. The chemicals are dying so.... 39 00:04:37,530 --> 00:04:41,700 Maybe I should refresh them. 40 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:54,030 Just trying to balance being planned and being ready and then being aware of like the thing that happens. 41 00:04:54,050 --> 00:05:02,040 ♪ 42 00:05:02,060 --> 00:05:15,220 I don’t know how to say this. I think for this journey you go on where like you make one move, then the materials make another move, then you make a move but you’re always sort of following the path that’s given to you by the thing that you’re working with. 43 00:05:26,610 --> 00:05:34,590 The stumbled upon fruit is always much better than if you had executed things perfectly. 44 00:05:34,610 --> 00:05:37,790 [LAUGHS] 45 00:05:37,810 --> 00:05:41,990 When I wash them to hang them up, okay, I think it’s dead. 46 00:05:44,030 --> 00:05:49,200 And I’m still, oh, desperately trying to horde the last of my materials. 47 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:54,380 If I had been born fifteen years earlier it wouldn’t have been an issue because film would have been just standard. 48 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:02,430 It’s not tragic. It’s kind of, I don’t know what, sometimes I feel like I’m out of control, like I won’t have this forever. 49 00:06:02,450 --> 00:06:08,640 But you don’t have anything forever, so, just like make the most of it now while you have it. 50 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:28,830 ♪ 51 00:06:28,850 --> 00:06:35,010 ♪ 52 00:06:35,030 --> 00:06:38,388 What are you going to cut with this?