Now: 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time every Friday.
Here: A community of artists in Washington Heights / Inwood and the world meeting in this online gallery.
This: A piece of art created Now and sharing the most important thing on our minds.
Scroll down to view the exhibit below. Thank you for participating in and viewing Now: Here: This.--Peter Ferko, Project Director
COME
TO THE OPENING of NOW:HERE:THIS
Jan.16, 2004,
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Office of City Councilmember Robert Jackson
751 W. 183rd St
(at Ft. Washington Ave, take the A or 1/9 to 181 St)
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Now:
Here: This
January 9, 2004, 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time
Jacie Lee Almira, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City
Navigation
I steer through a loop. Things important last year, and the year
before last, are still so. Only such a relatively small instance
of time, but I languish from the same unanswered questions. Thought
I'd have left this place long ago.
Rosa Naparstek, Washington Heights, New York City
La Valse (No Body Calls Me Chicken)
The Most Important Thing(s) On My Mind:
How difficult it is to be real and present to myself.
How easy it is to talk about politics and the horror of what is, and has
been___unconscious of our contribution to the dance at the edge of the
volcano.
How to let go of all notions of myself formed as a defense and ploy for
love.
How to trust in my unknowing and let others know more.
How to cross the barrier of separated selves and bring home community.
James Huckenpahler, Washington, D.C.
Untitled
thinking of:
1
Russian cinema, <1910
2
Sam/Frodo as GM Siamese twins, representing East/West scientific dialectic
bowing divinely to eachother.
3
The cover of Amazing Fantasy #15 reinterpreted as an Altdorfer painting.
4
Moving across town this week.
5
Broke.
Scott J. Plunkett, New York City
Untitled
Should I form a narrative with this project? Can I engage the linear?
Do I even think that way in the first place? Clarity is pretty dull sometimes,
but it can be illuminating. Should my writing and my image inform each
other? Can they help it? There’s a story behind
every image, but culturally, we tend toward a shallow, short-term memory.
The web is full of bytes of information with little context, but it has
granted access to many. Access is good, isn’t it? Working
with media-derived imagery, I’ve always tried work with things I
enjoy. Creating a spiky complexity is a large part of my thinking, sifting
through a large discount bin and making a great, resonant find.
Mostly it’s just very cold out today and I’m feeling contrary,
an optimistic cynic.
Peter Ferko, Washington Heights, New York City
'Does Bliss Show?' Portrait #2: Listening to Jaco Pastorius
Portraiture, but not portraiture. It's all been done, right?- -what's not been done? Bad snapshots, missed flash shots, color shifts are my favorite pics in rolls. But trying to intend the perfect accidental moments to paint onto some emulsion...hmm, difficult with portraits. After angels, not ghouls- -most of those shots end up ghouls. Or maybe to photograph bliss by being there at the right instant...
Wendy Newton, Washington Heights, New York City
Untitled
Most important thing on my mind: my mind.
My mind this morning feels like an endlessly and prolifically spawning swarm of bees that has been shut in a room with a tightly closed door. You hear them. You become intrigued. You open the door and immediately realize your mistake. You spend several intense moments struggling with the door, and finally shut it. You go back to eating your bananas or whatever it is you were doing. They taste sweet, you’re content, life is good. Soon you hear this interesting buzzing coming from behind the closed door and…
I woke up thinking about 11:00. I have not planned what I will do at 11:00, wanting rather to experience it fresh, but I admit I feel like the proverbial deer in the headlight. When does this experience begin? The anticipation is unnerving. Will it be inspired? Is it here? Is it now? Where did it go? When was it precisely? (The exact moment of 11:00 loses its significance entirely.)
I have always been obsessive on this particular subject. Anticipation and its obverse, nostalgia. It’s a bit like the infinity question, which troubled me deeply as a child. I am naturally susceptible to consciousness overload. Easily overwhelmed. So I mostly prefer to keep the door to the above-mentioned room shut. But maybe it’s time to re-envision what’s behind the door and how to deal with it?
Afterthought: must consider how much effort it takes not to open the door, the ennui of staring out the window so much, and the fact that I’ve put on weight eating so many bananas.
Piero Ribelli, New York City
Untitled, White Plains, NY
Today I am working in a child learning center and I am wondering when in my life I'll be able to make a living doing what I love to do. Maybe I will have to figure out what I want to do, first...
that's my main thought these days. figuring out what to
do with my life.
I'm getting tired of it, though...
PP, New York City
I'm experiencing a major creative block. I've been designing a home-page for weeks and nothing is flowing. I threw the I Ching and got "Temporary Obstacles," it turned into "The Receptive." The book states: The receptive is the perfect compliment of the creative - the complement, not the opposite, for the receptive does not combat the creative but completes it. This feels right, so how can I be receptive and impressionable? My creativity is inspired by "the other," and that "other" recently shocked and awed me on several fronts. I guess the first thing is to stop trying and allow the anxiety; choose to participate, it'll have it's way regardless.
This is the only piece of the site my ego could show, tho it probably won't be used.
Tim Folzenlogen, Washington Heights, New York City
Words and Image 2
We all come from the same place – a place that is clear like water.
Get born into a red, encounter a blue, and your world turns violet. Everybody
is thinking and doing, exactly what you would think and do, if you were
they.
Look at all the colors with an equally passionate or dispassionate eye
- like you naturally do when viewing any landscape you have ever seen
– and your world will turn clear again.
Jason Gubbiotti
These are drawings that I have been making in AppleWorks. They are drawings
in there own right and not intended to be blueprints for "paintings".
If anything, they allow me to move through ideas quickly.
The pieces have also not been printed in any such physical form. So I
only find it appropriate to show them on computer screens.
This Week's Guest Artists (How to join this project)
Karen Greene, Washington Heights, New York City
Heather Garden III
Most important thing: always being open to light.
Comments (click to submit a comment)
From Renee, Verona, NJ:
Initial thoughts from a humble viewer (frustrated art school dropout
turned suburban mommy rebel)
this project does my soul good.
Having pondered art all four decades of my life, I still think that true
art is timeless, has an eternal quality, expresses truth without agenda,
or at least helps to reveal it.
Are the intense writings and images of the 18 year old intensely significant
without end?
are not the musings of a young god or goddess sacred?
A friend of mine had an out of body experience, and in relating it, called
himself nuts. He shared it reluctantly , like a dirty secret.
It made me wonder what underground treasure troves we all sit on, ashamed.
How different would the world be, if only we could be just a little bit
naked in one another's presence.
Like Tim, I am interested in it all.
Artists change the world.
Keep the spark going.
From Tim Folzenlogen:
First of all, I'd like to congratulate Peter, on both his website and for creating the "Now: Here: This" project. I think that he is a deeply inspired man - one who is intimately in touch with the times.
I'm also extremely impressed with the quality of work that the initial show represents - and how seriously and sincerely all the individuals who have expressed themselves have done so.
I believe that these times transcend all times past. Before, when considering
art, it was mostly about the individual.
I believe that, from now, individual artists will find fulfillment and
recognition - not so much as individuals - but moreso to the degree that
their art, their expression, takes into consideration the thoughts and
feelings of diverse others who, up until this time, have been excluded
from the public conversation.
The next big thing is everybody.
More from Renee:
About Rosa's Cummerbund
Rosa's piece spoke to me, and I appreciated the intimate description
of her creative process. It honors the intuitive messages, both intended
and perceived, in objects that surround us.
I want to say I am moved by everyone;s images and thoughts, and have visited
this site several times this week.
Thank you.
From Peter Ferko
More of a confession than a comment: I realized I set the time for the project during U.S. Daylight Savings Time (EU Summer Time) which we aren't in now. I am adjusting the art spark time to 16:00 GMT, which is what we've been doing anyway. Oops...
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