_ the now project (virtual) --- 2005

The Now Project was a temporal, international collaboration of artists Maura Clarke, Tony Day, Rachel Mcintire, Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, Victor Young, Jessica Pierce, Terry Costello, Maya Erdelyi-Perez and Lucas DuClos responding artistically to the word NOW. Over the course of several months, writers, dancers, muralists, and painters from Mexico City, Chicago, Somerville, and Cambridge created art work that explored NOW as both a concept and a word. Artists created site-specific street performance, poetry, photography, and dance, which was later featured in an online gallery exhibition.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2005.



NOW IS SORRY


Now is a wart

A spectacle



Now refuses

To move



It wanders,

Salted at the hip



Crawls reckless

To ancient caves



Now is tender,

A freckled thing



Broken, edgy

Glassy-eyed



Now sips

Poison, patient



Now waits

For next time



It hides

And lies



Bursts

And curses



Now dirties

The map



Confuses

The sailor, his heart



Now envies

outer space.


It swims
in brain waves



Stumbles, drowns

Unsteady.



Now has bad

Breath, a loose



Tooth. Now

Is sorry.

A.L.L.