Art: 3:06 pm John Hancock Center from 17 Chicago Photographs in 10 Hours by Nikola Olic
TOUCH
Think of it as deft spring winds passing through full-blown lindens,
leaves shuddering, tentative as love’s sweet-talk, made almost breathless,
if spoken, or what fades into mist from pasture fieldstones and switchgrass
rising up to meet mountain rift-and-fold fogs before being one with blue,
then me, waiting old-school solo on the bounce with my new smart cell
under a sliver of moon for you, face, lip, finger, hand, scent, voice, kiss,
nearly merging selves, fingering Adam, only now, screen-time selfie subtext,
de trop meta meme signifiers, virtuosity, at best, until I de-douche the past,
swipe open my mobile, caress its crystal pixels, full frontal facetime.
Enter. Touch.
About the author:
GTimothy Gordon‘s seventh book, DREAM WIND, is now under review, FROM FALLING published Autumn 2017 (Spirit-of-the-Ram P). Work appears in AGNI, CINCINNATI POETRY R, KANSAS Q, LOUISVILLE R, MISSISSIPPI R, NEW YORK Q, RHINO, SONORA R, TEXAS OBSERVER; TEXAS LITERARY R, & BASEBALL BARD, among others. EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received the SunStone P Poetry Prize (AZ). Recognitions include NEA & NEH Fellowships and nominations for Pushcarts and The NEA Western States’ Book Awards. He divides professional and personal lives among Asia, the Desert/Mountain Southwest, and Maine.
Art: 3:06 pm John Hancock Center from 17 Chicago Photographs in 10 Hours by Nikola Olic
In the artist’s words:
These 17 photographs were taken a few weeks ago during 10 fast-paced, fulfilling and weather-challenged daylight hours in Chicago, and represent a modern, abstract and playful view of places and buildings that can be both familiar and new to Chicago locals, and inviting and surprising to visitors, such as myself. My award-winning photography has appeared in galleries, art events, museums, magazines, newspapers, spaces and websites around the world, including Wired.com, The Guardian, CNN Style, Yahoo.com, ArchDaily, Digg, Curbed, Seattle Post Intelligencer, and SkyScrapers.com, as well as the Dallas Museum Of Art, Dallas’ MADI Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art and many others. This Chicago visit was a part of the ‘Cities’ project (http://bit.ly/2LsL49G), a collection of published photography projects that represent quick and unpredictable explorations over a few hours or days. This year I had visited Las Vegas, Denver, Fort Wayne, Galveston and now Chicago. All photographs had been published in interesting local magazines, newspapers or online, and my hope is for that to continue with these Chicago photographs as well. A few words about me — I am an independent Nikon World Photographer, originally from Serbia but living and working in Dallas, Texas, focusing on architectural photography and abstract structural quotes that reimagine their subjects in playful, dimensionless and disorienting ways. Each published photograph is accompanied with a short description and the location where it was taken, offering a direct connection between the unexpected visual space of the photograph, and the real world of cars, buildings, people and noise in which it exists. These are intended as demystifying tools essential to abstract photography, reminding that these subjects — beautiful or otherwise — are on every corner, in places we visit and places we live in.
