Now: Here: This March 31, 2006
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Claire Adas
Lambertville, New Jersey
Digital Camera
digital photograph
I just got a digital camera. I love it, but I'm kind of overwhelmed by the possiblities. I could take a picture as often as I could press the button, and just erase the ones I don't like. It doesn't have the rare and precious quality of the traditional cameras, the anxious waiting period, to see how the photo will emerge.
In this picture, the disused railway station, with it's frames of space, reminded me of traditional film, and the streaks of light felt like ghosts, slightly mocking.
Harold Wallin,
Washington Heights, New York City
Airport
digital photograph
I've so much enjoyed seeing the artwork in the last few art sparks, and I guess I must have fell under the influence of the collage and tape contingent of Pat, Tony and Nick, because I found I was seeing collage all over the place. Thanks.
anaximander
Berlin
how much luck...
digital photograph
ow much luck art is able to brook?
or
what exactly is this vitamin B all are talking about?
or
wouldnt i prefer vitamin C?
PP
New York City
Found Package
cellophane and Photoshop
Reading art criticism makes me lose my voice. I impose shoulds on myself to be political, to represent something, be good at talking about it, and therefore I question the lovely Lady Linda. Then I remember my focus is to inhabit my body and see from there. But because of reading reviews lately and seeing many ways of looking at art, I feel more respectful of the freedom that exists to make anything I want. The privilege and responsibility of making choices from infinity almost wants me to find a container to safely limit me or push up against. But mostly, the spaciousness feels like new exciting territory with curiosity and some courage to be personal.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
scanned negative
I shot this photo last month. During the art spark I was wrestling with the cropping and looking at the issue of a) restrictions imposed by technology vs. b) shape in the interest of art. Specifically, the image, shot 35mm does not match the 13" x19" inkjet paper ratio I hoped to print at. I wondered what to crop or whether to sacrifice overall size in order to include the whole image, which I framed in the viewfinder. The internal conversation mirrored a discussion Elissa Gore, Sky Pape and I were having during the last gallery crawll about framing, and how framing considerations seem to weigh heavily into decisions on how big and what shape to make work. In a perfect world, I guess we would always ignore such issues, but then again, limitations can be good grist to grind a piece into perfection, so maybe here as well.
Karien Vandekerkhove
Flanders, Belgium
there_is_2
photograph
... nothing that is not there and the nothing that is ... "
-from " the snow man," wallace stevens - 1921
Joel Adas
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Bedside Still Life
pencil and sharpie marker on cardboard, 6" x 3.5"
Weighing on my mind right now are the myriad of mundane rituals (bills, rent, jobs) that must be waded thru to reach that clearing called art where the mind, the eye, and the hand can play.
Sky Pape
Inwood, New York City
Detail of a drawing in progress
digital photograph
A work in progress
A time of transition
A pause for reflection
A moment of clarity
A chance taken
A gesture made
A fleeting glance
A breath
A glimmer
A life
Tim Folzenlogen
Washington Heights, New York City
SP #127
colored pencil
Thinking About Purity
If you know me, you know that I am interested in you.
I’ve always been interested in everyone I meet.
There are no exceptions.
I’ve always been interested in everyone, pretty much equally.
When I talk to someone, meet someone, view them, listen to them, write
to them – that person is pretty much the only person who exists
in my life.
I’m all over them, and beg for more.
People know this about me.
I doubt very much that you could find anyone, who would tell you otherwise.
My interest is genuine. I’m not pushing me out there. I’m
mostly interested in them. I’ll always talk about whatever they
want to talk about.
They don’t hang around long enough to talk about what I want to
talk about.
But they know what it is.
They know it’s “everybody”.
People don’t like to do “everybody”.
They all seem to like to limit their life experiences from here to there.
But sooner or later, they will try it.
They will, because it’s an idea whose time has come.
There will be no going back.
“Everybody” is a lot more rewarding way to do life.
It’s a world where everything makes perfect sense.
There will be (is, and has always been) more, infinitely more, for everyone.
No shame, no blame.
Stephen Beveridge
Washington Heights, New York City and Hemet, California
New York Times
mixed media
24" x 24"
Watched a film shot in NYC yesterday and the city is on my mind. Subways, steam, and street vendors. Funny I'll probably be sick of it after a week but now i'm pining for home.
Vikki Michalios
Jersey City, New Jersey
untitled
oil on panel
12" x 12"
What is on my mind right now:
Spring blossoms
Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled and untitled
Scotch tape collage and Photoshop
The Republicans are in crisis, but as usual the Democrats seem unable to fill the void.
The last serious theological discussion I had with my brother (the chaplain) was about how I thought Judas Iscariot got a bum rap. With the recent publication of the Gospel of Judas I'm feeling affirmed.
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