Now: Here: This
March 30 & April 13, 2007
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Melissa Guion
Washington Heights, New York City
Gothic Crud
mixed media
What is the most important thing on my mind right now? My first picture book dummy. I'm finding it quite difficult, there are a lot of moving parts.
PP
New York City
Partial Womb Rights
digital
What a horrible week in the news. Obscured by TV salivating over the Virginia Tech horror are 2 issues reminding woman of their place. Upholding the Partial "Birth" Abortion Ban Act is beyond belief. A woman is incapable of choosing what is in her best interests, and the law must protect her from herself. This is sexism. Then there's the first contraceptive pill about to be approved by the FDA that is designed to eliminate periods as long as a woman takes it. Dupe women into believing their bodies are functioning normally even though their natural hormonal processes have been overridden by the artificial hormones in the pill. And the Warner Chilcott manipulative advertising on tv for shorterperiods.com drives me insane. Hey, what side-effects? I know I'm preaching to the choir, but here's a good radio piece by Laura Flanders. This is too much on my mind, I have to remind myself that it's spring outside. April, my favorite month.
Harold Wallin
Washington Heights, New York City
Untitled/Self-Titled
photograph
On a trip, looking for a gooseberry farm.
Harold Wallin
Washington Heights, New York City
Untitled
photograph
Coastal Farmlet
"A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm."
—Chekhov
I want a coastal farmlet.
I desire it very much.
I saw it advertised
in the classifieds and I presume
that coastal means our land
comes right down
to the sea with the whitecaps
lashing romantically, and farmlet
means we can grow
gnarled trees on our headland
and let sheep roam. It is about cheap
enough for us if we borrow, beg
and steal, pawn a few poems, also write
a harlequin romance or two, and it's
only 9000 miles from the place
we call home. There's not much
of a hitch except the Immigration
would not let us stay in the country
to live in our farmlet. But still,
I want it and think we should go
look at it, right now, this moment,
while tangy sweet gooseberries glow.
by David Ray
Nick Holliday
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Untitled
collage
Stephen Beveridge
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
edited photograph
Stephen Beveridge
Washington Heights, New York City
FCI #4
acrylic on canvas, 2' x 2'
OMM: Lately I am aiming for the closest integration between form and content. This requires concentration on both elements throughout the performance.
Claire Adas
Lambertville, New Jersey
Leaves
digital video
The most important thing today is sunlight.
Pamela Flynn
Freehold, New Jersey
The Tree of Life/A Symbol
Ceramic and Mixed Media
When the leaves are cut off, the tree dies a slow death.
Theresa Murphy
Paris, France
echelle
digital print
stacking unstacking
unearthing veiling
climbing descending
stretching vision coming back to the minute
hmmmmm...
the sun this morning breezy liquid at my window
Sky Pape
Inwood, New York City
Untitled (drawing in progress)
Ink on paper
Working on managing my time so that I won’t miss out on Spring.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
coffee cup and stir stick
photographs
My wife and I bought a cabin today. During the art spark, we were plunking down the dough, then we went up to the land. I've been doing a series of coffee cups for Now:Here:This, because lately I've been in an office at art spark time. I tried to stick with the series despite the lack of a coffee cup.
Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
Two Trucks on the George Washington Bridge
photographs
So, I'm having a delightful day with my dog Lizzie and my new camera on the George Washington Bridge when a security guard interrupts my reverie with the news that I'm not allowed to take pictures of the bridge. I'm not actually taking pictures of the bridge though. I've been photographing the traffic on the bridge but I sense the distinction will be lost on him. I ask if taking pictures from the bridge of the cityscape is permitted. Not that I'm really interested in taking pictures of the cityscape, just curious as to the parameters of this no photos rule. He says that one is not even allowed to physically bring a camera onto the bridge and that he could confiscate mine if he so chose. He's firm without being rude (just doing his job). To his credit a few minutes later he approaches me to say that he's just talked to his boss and that if I want to take pictures of the cityscape that's fine, and gives me a number to call where I might get permission to take as many pictures of the bridge as I want.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
variations on a coffee cup
photograph
I've been reading a book that an author sent me unsolicited. While at first I thought I would never read it, now I can't put it down. It's the most important thing on my mind right now. It asks four questions about every thought that causes you stress. Starting with, 'Is it true?'
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