Nicholas Gazin: Girls at Parties
Why do we keep showing up? The whole stupid routine—getting ready at some awful hour, the cold, standing in the dark pretending to care while people dance. But we know why. Girls. Drunk girls, bored girls, girls thinking about something else while the music plays.
Nicholas Gazin figured it out as an artist. He wanders New York finding the right parties and just watches. Girls drinking, eating, half-asleep, thinking dark things while their friends ignore them. Not trying to talk to them or impress them—just looking. That’s the whole point.
There’s something honest about it, even if it’s a little creepy. It’s not romance or seduction or any of that staged stuff. It’s just that women in their own space, not performing, are endlessly more interesting to watch. The way they forget their faces when drunk. The way they get mean or quiet or loud without calculating it. That’s what drags you out of your apartment into the freezing dark.
His work captures this exactly—just the pure attention you can’t help paying when you’re around someone beautiful because she isn’t trying to be.