Sofia Nago (pictured above)
Student, Midtown East
What brings you here?
My friend Vivi is reading her short story, and my friend Maria is haircutting and has been here a full 24 hours. This event was her idea.
How did you all meet?
You have to be very kind and not laugh: I totally met all of my friends on Twitter. It’s crazy to me because I don’t think of myself as a particularly introverted person. I literally go up to people and I’m like, “Hey, you look cool and you are my age and I like whatever thing you’re doing.” So I’m kind of shocked that I’ve made more friends on Twitter than I have at any party I’ve ever been to in New York City.
Are you an artist as well?
I would say “yes” but not in the same way as everybody here. It’s more of a hobby for me. I like to write and I doodle and draw every so often, but there’s nothing I’ve published or read out loud at an event. But hopefully, soon I’ll be getting there. I feel like that’s kind of the nature of living in New York. It’s like you’ve got to do it eventually.
Cassidy Elizabeth Dekle
Manager and registrar, Glendale
Tony Matelli
Artist, Long Island City
Whose hair did you cut today?
I cut my wife’s hair — it looks fantastic. I cut her hair occasionally, and there was a time in my life when I was approached to work in a hair salon after they saw her hair. Usually my haircuts take about 24 hours. This was a little rushed.
Luccas Cepeda
Musician, Jersey City, New Jersey
Daniel Oglander
Art adviser, East Village
Have you ever cut hair before?
I’ve cut my own hair for the past 18 years of living in New York City. But it’s my first time cutting someone else’s hair, especially a lady’s hair. It went well, though — I gave her a trim, nothing intense. I was hoping to exclusively do bowl cuts today, but there was no such luck.
Maria Puglisi Juvanet
Event planner, Midwood
Lucy Stamper
Interior designer, Sunnyside
Vita Haas
Shop owner, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Vita Haas
Shop owner, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Is that your real hair?
It’s a wig that was $15 on Amazon. I’ve been using it for events and costumes. It’s like having an alter ego, which I call Sarah. I have a haircutter in Korea I see once or twice a year, so to have anyone else touch my hair was too huge. I had Sof’ya Shpurova and Domenick Ammirati cut the wig.
Seth Cohen
Artist, Lower East Side
David Soto
Visual artist, Bushwick
Who cut your hair?
I got Eli Ping, a sculptor. He just did a tiny trim. I saw his sculptures, and they’re absolutely beautiful. He told me he works with bronze. It was interesting to hear him talk about cutting hair. He was using sculptural language, so he was talking about shaping it and forming it. You can tell everyone here is in their own process mind-set.
Alice Aster
Artist, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Sof’ya Shpurova
Artist, Clinton Hill
I see your art is on display here at the gallery.
The show is called “I’m a surgeon, maybe just of some other kind.” One of the themes of my work is being inside the body or the skin of the paintings because we are very layered. And my thought is I treat the canvas like a human skin — like a bruised skin or skin with acne — that is sort of asking for empathy.
Deanna Baris
Designer, Clinton Hill
Domenick Ammirati
Writer, Ridgewood
Chambit Miller
Paralegal, Williamsburg
Eli Ping
Artist, Lower East Side
Jack Radley
Editor, Bedford-Stuyvesant
What kind of haircut do you want today?
I need a change in my life. I need someone to go in and doge my head, basically. Like, I’m your Chia Pet, whatever you want to do. I hate when you get a haircut and you say, “I don’t know, what do you think?” And they try to convince you that it’s actually about what you want.
Photographs by Frankie Alduino
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