Now: Here: This
April 18
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Isabela Oldak
Poznan, Poland
Variations of painting
photography
When I was looking at one of my paintings,i started to think how
to actuate, change and transform it, to gain my today's mood.
To do that, in the front of camera i put a crystal and i took series of
photos. The result I called : variations of painting.
Karen Greene
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
photography
I was downtown going to Pearl Paint today to replenish my supply of mattes when I came upon the doorway which I have photographed before, and submitted to Now Here This as a piece which has evolved over time. Well, as I was taking a few shots, who passed by but Peter Ferko HIMSELF, watching me join the artistic community. NYC is such a small town.
So here it is -- three panels of evolution of a piece of street art over a period of eight months. It is interesting how the central figure has been either used or ignored by those who have added to the piece, with additions as varied as a somewhat ghoulish suggestion of the muscles of a flayed body, and also a cascade of spring flowers from the figure's left hand.
Edie Nadelhaft
Brooklyn, New York
untitled
oil on canvas
Most important thing on my mind:
Painting. I'm thinking about painting. And tightrope walking. This is a one shot. It was painted in a single session. This self-imposed parameter forces me to think on my feet and paint well, right now. No opportunity to fuss the thing to death.
PP
Petaluma, California
untitled
photographic collage
Someone recently asked me if my creative inspiration in CA is different than in NY. I said no, even though on my short dead-end street there are horses, cows, sheep, rams, goats, geese, peacocks, chickens, and a vineyard. The materials I use are different, but whether it's farmland or central Manhattan, there is continuity and similarity. Maybe it's just my wonder bread® years following me around.
Amir Parsa
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
phone photograph
Now and here:
I’m thinking, should I really abide by the constraints of the project.
And why. I’m also wondering how I could not include this image even
though it’s, what, Thursday, 5:15 pm, a whole 23 hours before the
slated time. And yet… It fits, so well, the
Now: as I’m walking on 51st St on Thursday April 17, while that
dude is visiting from we know where, right around
Here: midtown, right around work, a scene you never see, coinciding (is
it really a coincidence) with the historic (ehem) visit: but the dude
has never been around here after all, and here, on 51st St, there is
This: a burnt-out cab, the result of, what… Is it chance, is it
a message, a protest, a cry, a howl, a scream of, what: with all the tourists
assembled around, snapping pictures: with all the cops checking out the
surroundings: with the smoke and the stink spreading all around: what:
a purposeful act, or a random accident, just like this, here, now…
Wondering if we’ll know what this was about, and wondering if
This image, here, today, is not so damn right for Now:Here:This even though
it’s taken one day too early…
(Wondering even, if this is much of a ‘thought’ that’s
going through my mind...)
Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City
Marco, a homeless man who lives behind the Dutch Reformed Church
on Colonel Robert Magaw Place
photograph
Marco has been a fixture in the neighborhood for years. We don't see him so much in the winter, but as soon as the weather warms up he reappears like the starlings and the robins.
Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City
four corners
photographs
I am trying to have nothing on my mind, because when I let myself think of everything I should be doing right now, I want to cry. Instead I'm just making pictures.
Amir Parsa
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
phone photograph
Emblematic.
A burnt-out cab in midtown with its doors open and its lights out with
tourists hanging around smiling and snapping pictures.
The incidental nature of the sighting. The unusual nature of the event.
Not what you really see on midtown streets in late afternoon. Which prompts
the very exclamation: now and here, this! Nothing special photographically,
but emblematic...
Flames and smoke and throngs and smiles and the absurdity of it all. Here,
now...
This.
Stephen Beveridge
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
watercolor
Most important thing on my mind right now:
Nothing on my mind is important.
Claire Adas
Lambertville , New Jersey
Swallows
digital video
The swallows swooping back and forth across the water is a glorious, joyful thing to see. I've been trying to capture it on video, but hadn't been able. Today, each time they flew into the frame I felt so glad I could actually feel my heart beating faster. So the most important thing at the moment is the feeling that capturing an image can cause -- that spark.
Amir Parsa
Washington Heights, New York City
untitled
phone photograph
Cars, lanes, parking lots, traffic flow: I’ve thought this before. I’ve written this before. This scene I mean. And this event. Had thought it before ever seeing it. That’s also what I’m thinking now...
Although...
Which also prompts my thinking about thoughts.
And how it’s not one thought that comes to mind but multiple networks
of words and images somehow coagulating into thoughts racing around.
Same image, endless directions for the many thoughts.
Thinking about that too: the notion of the thought, the thought of thought,
before this image, here and now.
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