By Kenn Sava.
Having looked back at Year Seven of NighthawkNYC.com, here, I decided to take a selected look back at what you saw when you looked above what I’ve written here since July 15, 2015: the Banners I’ve run from Day 1.
Speaking of Day 1, July 15, 2015…Remember this?
Banner #1. July 15, 2015. Location- Somewhere Downtown, late. My adaptation of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942, into a “Self-Portrait,” as I said, here. My piece on decades of looking for the site of the REAL Nighthawks, one of my most popular pieces ever, is here.
Banner #2 – NighthawkNYC Version 2.0 in honor of the First Anniversary, July 15, 2016, I decided to create my own version.
Banner #40b – My working file since July, 2016. The blue lines are the ghosts of all the layers that have been added to this image the past six years! As seen below…
Banner #3. Night flowers.
Banner #4 – Outside Ai Weiwei’s powerful show Laundromat on the Refugee Crisis
Banner #5 – Chelsea, February, 2017. Seeing this reminded me of my boxed-in upbringing, as I wrote in my 10th Anniversary of Cancer treatment piece. This space is now the Hauser & Wirth mega-gallery.
Banner #6 – The High Line, March, 2017. January, February and early March are the only times I’ll hit the High Line, which is too crowded the rest of the year. I’ve still never been to Hudson Yards (15 blocks behind me here). By choice.
Banner #7 – The Strand Bookstore, minutes after closing, December, 2017, back when it closed at 10:30pm every night. Not at 8pm as it does now!
Banner #8 – Madison Square, January, 2018
Banner #8 – Unpublished experiment featuring my dear friends, the Birdies from my “On The Fence” series, seen on their infamous perch on West 24th Street.
Banner #11 – The Entrance to Michelangelo at The Met, February, 2018. Behind the transparent screen is the faux scaffolding for the Sistine Ceiling section.
Banner #18 – Hell’s Kitchen, March, 2018
Banner #21 – 7th Avenue, April, 2018. A sort of “nighthawks” at the all-night coffee house…
Banner #23 – 18th Street, May, 2018
Banner #11 – The steam pipe explosion on 5th Avenue. Looking uptown from 5th Avenue and 18th Street to the Empire State Building as repairs to the surrounding buildings damaged by the explosion continues, July 26, 2018.
Banner #22 – Meatpacking District, September, 2018,
Banner #25 – Live on the D Train, November, 2018
Banner #32 – March, 2019, West 19th Street. My banner as it was before everything hit the fan. I ran this one longer than any other so far.
Banner #32a – March 22, 2020. The covid shutdown is a week old. I’m home, like everyone else.
Banner #32b – July 20, 2020. NighthawkNYC.com is 5 years old! Restaurants & cafes are allowed to open for take out and delivery orders, only.
Banner #34 – Unpublished experiment in response to everything being boarded up here. It showed a lack of trust in the community, their customers, which angered me when I was living with all of it, so I made it as a joke and didn’t run it.
May 3, 2021 – The vaccine has kicked in and I’ve returned after a year away from the banner. At least to Eddie’s Cafe. I had yet to go inside any other restaurant.
Banner 32c – NighthawkNYC.com is 6! July, 2021. Twyla’s quote still fits.
Banner #26 – With Richard Estes Double Self-Portrait, May, 2022.
Banner #27 – Parking Eddie’s Cafe in the middle of 6th Avenue in the Flatiron facing south, June, 2022, One World Trade Center next to my left ear.
If you had told me at a number of points this past year, I’d be hanging a “7 Years” Banner, I’d have seriously doubted it!
*-Soundtrack for this Post is “I Contain Multitudes,” by Bob Dylan from Rough and Rowdy Ways, 2020.
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