Now: Here: This June 9, 2006

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Nick Holliday
Great Barrington, Massachussetts

myrtophobia
colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper

myrtophobia = fear of night and darkness

PP
New York City

untitled [working title]
animated collage [photograph from street]

Most on my mind, it seems, is recruiting artists for Now:Here:This. I invited Peter [another] from Mascot Studio framing; my co-collagist, PA Simko; Yves, the dancer and drawer I met at the Avenue A flea market; and encouraged Gembeaux, the photo stylist and my spiritual and shopping guru. I hope they all can experience the magic Peter [Ferko] creates.
Even though I just glued 5 collages, I made this for NHT and it turned-out to be my favorite. I don't know what to call it. Any ideas? It seems to be of women that somehow might have been easily overlooked, and that's why I like them.

 

Karien Vandekerkhove
Flanders, Belgium

there_is_5
photograph

 

 

 

Joel Adas
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

untitled
brush and ink

Thinking about the shore: the beautiful saturated light and eyepopping color. And everything moving: the wind, the waves, the water, the grass. So much life there!

Claire Adas
Lambertville, New Jersey

Water wind light leaves
digital video

"A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback--it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving."
-Bob Dylan, Chronicles

My brother gave me this book. I think he'd understand what Dylan is talking about--the sweetness and the humor and the truth of it. And it doesn't just apply to song-writing, does it?

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Harold Wallin
New York City & Anchorage, Alaska

untitled
monoprint

Just thinking how glad I am to be in the studio, and making, and able to be a part of N:H:T again.

Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City

untitled
digital photogram

Lately, I'm having to reflect on the proper perspective on community in light of a multitude of agendas that clammer alongside my own. I'm thinking about the inverse of the common dictate to arrive at my stance of the moment: act globally, be locally.

Sky Pape
Inwood, New York City

This, here, now...gone
water drawing

A friend's words keep me alert to the difference between a human being and a human doing, and while frequently I feel like the latter, a new drawing board helps keep me in the moment. Made using a brush and water, my drawings evaporate soon after they're done. You'll never know how many masterpieces and mistakes you've missed! A brush in hand is the best way I know to brush away that copious mind-clutter.

Wendy Newton
Washington Heights, New York City

untitled
digital photograph

On my mind this morning: sunlight, continuity of experience, perceivable change, persistence of emotional memory, the element of mystery in the process whereby an image rises above the mundane to become poetic.

Pamela Flynn
Freehold, New Jersey

Memorial Day
mixed media

How many more empty chairs at Memorial Day Cook Outs must there be before the notion of war is realized as being idiotic?

 

Petr Schvetsov
St. Petersburg, Russia

untitled
video

It's always very exciting taking off. Each time it's very different, depending on the place you're flying from. Especially flying from St. Petersburg--it just explains alot about the nature of Russia.

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