Daniel Heidkamp

Things to Do in New York (City)

BY TED BERRIGAN

for Peter Schjeldahl

Wake up high up

frame bent & turned on

Moving slowly

& by the numbers

light cigarette

Dress in basic black

& reading a lovely old man’s book:

BY THE WATERS OF MANHATTAN

change

flashback

play cribbage on the Williamsburg Bridge

watching the boats sail by

the sun, like a monument,

move slowly up the sky

above the bloody rush:

break yr legs & break yr heart

kiss the girls & make them cry

loving the gods & seeing them die

celebrate your own

& everyone else’s birth:

Make friends forever

& go away

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New York, New Work is an off-site project with Daniel Heidkamp presented by half gallery. Daniel Heidkamp has done two solo exhibitions at half gallery; Airplane Mode in 2013 and Barbizon Beauty School in 2015. The artist has also exhibited at Marlborough Chelsea (NY), Brand New Gallery (IT) and White Columns (NY). He currently has an exhibition at Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Pump the Peninsula until May 21st.