Now: Here: This
November 25, 2007
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Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
Bennett Park Pigeon
photograph (retouched)
July 2000: it's the summer of my daughter Phoebe's seventh year. We are in the Bennett Park playground with our brand new puppy, Lizzie, on a short leash when Phoebe's forearm receives a splat of pigeon shit that falls from the sky. As she tries to resist the urge to retch I desperately attempt to focus her attention elsewhere while searching my pockets for tissues. By the time I find something with which to wipe her arm it is too late. She throws up her lunch. As I mop her arm clean and smooth my daughter's feathers, Lizzie, with great alacrity, laps up the vomit from the asphalt. This induces Phoebe to throw up again.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled (photogram strip)
scanned assemblages
The most important thing on my mind right now is the notiion of group identity. Everyone in a group seems to believe they know the group's identity, and yet a group identity can never be an individual's identity (outside the Brave New World). What does that leave for a group? Single visions at the helm, with like-minded support that trickles off as you descend through the ranks. I noticed this once more upon joining forces with a new "group" this year. The total tribes I belong to now numbering close to a handful. Lucky for me, there are sympaticos in every one...
Isabela Oldak
Poznan, Poland
untitled (For Sale project)
Acrylic on canvas, size 30 x 30 cm
Last Friday i was painting another pictures for my project called "For Sale". Its an art for disposal, art like a decoration. In this project I'm taking from the artist possibility to be a visionary designer. He can just be a craftsman, who makes a work in accordance with customer requirement. This is also metaphor to curator's attitude to artists; they often take significance away from the artist, because they want to be great creators themselves.
When I was creating this painting, I realised that I'm afraid to make another move, all patterns in my canvases I'm trying to paint "from the hand" and that's why I discover this fright. I was't brave enough to contrive a move on the canvas. and I thought: hey, wait a minute, if I conquered my anxiety when I was in Atlas mountains just with my friend, so why now I'm afraid of white canvas?
So this small painting (30x30cm) taught me how to be bold. And that is just me who discover and give beauty to the canvas.
Karen Greene
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
photographs
I have been taking photos in the submway for a while - my fight against how crappily the MTA maintains uptown stations. I have found that along with the astonishingly poor maintainance and abandonment of basic infrastructure - what we face daily - there are some interesting photographic opportunities.
Rosa Naparstek
Washington Heights, New York City
Yellow
photograph
Quote by Matisse, something akin to: "I have decided to do what I want and save my soul."
John Mason
Klaipeda, Lithuania
time is precious
ink on paper with digital color, 11" x 8"
on my mind right now:
I'm thinking about the entanglements of the day we can sidestep if we have that gift of freedom.
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