About the artist

A practice held in blue.

Detail of a layered cyanotype on hand-made paper

Look at our name twice.

Nowhere. Now here.

The same letters, split by a breath. That breath is the whole idea. Every life turns on a handful of moments, and every one of those moments happened somewhere. A street corner in a city you left. A delivery room at 4am. An exchange of vows on a rooftop. The moment and the place arrive together, then time moves on and only one of them stays on the map.

We make the other one stay too.

Now Here is an exploratory art project tracing the intersection of place and time through historical maps, photography, and cyanotype layering. It lives in the space between memory, the present moment, and the events that change us.

It comes from a family three generations deep in photography. My grandfather worked with film, waiting for light to commit itself to paper. He had the camera ready to capture the right moment in time. And despite the patience needed, he always made sure it was perfect. Cyanotype was the bluest, oldest, most stubborn version of that craft: sunlight writing directly onto the page in deep indigo. No shortcuts, no second chances, just the sun deciding what stays.

I grew up in that light. We work in its tradition.

Most pieces begin with a date and a coordinate. NASA's Worldview archive offers a quiet, daily portrait of the Earth, its clouds, shorelines, and weather, and each piece translates that day into deep cyanotype indigo. Where two moments meet, the chemistry remembers both.

The studio sits at the edge of science and ceremony. Every work asks the same question: what does it mean to be here, now?

Because the moments that change us don't happen nowhere.

They happen Now. Here.

Process

From orbit, to paper,
to home.

A short field guide to how each piece comes into being — and how the studio tool lets you create one of your own.

  1. I.

    A place, a date

    Every piece begins with two coordinates: where, and when. A childhood home. A wedding day. A morning that changed everything.

  2. II.

    Worldview

    NASA's Worldview archive offers a daily satellite portrait of the Earth — cloud patterns, water, light — going back decades.

  3. III.

    Layering

    Up to three moments are composed together. Where they meet, the image holds the weight of both, the way memory does.

  4. IV.

    Cyanotype

    The composite is rendered in cyanotype — indigo or warm sepia — with hand-torn, deckled edges and the texture of cotton paper.

  5. V.

    Print & post

    Each piece is printed on museum-grade art paper by our fine art print partner and shipped to your home

A layered cyanotype showing a historical scene through clouded textures
In the studio

Try it yourself.

The studio tool lets you search any place, pick up to three dates, and layer them into a personal cyanotype — in indigo or sepia. When you've found the one you love, send it to print.

Enter the studio
Materials
  • Hand-coated cyanotype emulsion
  • Cotton & Japanese kozo papers
  • NASA Worldview / GIBS imagery
  • Archival historical photographs
  • Sunlight, time, and a deckled edge
Inquiries

For commissions, exhibitions, or press, please reach out through the studio. Custom pieces — anniversaries, places held dear, collective moments — are welcomed.

nowhereartlab@gmail.com