smells like burning

The air quality is "Code Purple" in DC today (240, "very unhealthy") due to Canadian wildfires. You can't tell they are Canadian. Atmosphere doesn't observe borders.

I am indoors, tiny window AC blaring, putting the finishing touches on my things for this year's DCAC "WallMountables" community art show -- drilling, gluing, trying to think up names.

New sculptural assemblage -- salvaged glass, rat bones, rusty
barbed wire, petale-mache... the usual. But what to call it?

The show opens Friday, July 24th and closes Friday, August 21st (Wed-Sun, 2 to 7 p.m.) at 2438 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan. The renovated gallery space is gorgeous, and despite being unjuried, this show always has some amazing work in it! It's like a tiny Artomatic. Come and see!

Time is a river...

 ....and I am a tangled blob of flotsam. I updated my Artist Resume today, as I am entering [did not get into] a new show in Gaithersburg (thanks, Taina, for the link!) and I couldn't believe it has only been 13 months since the Touchstone "District 51" show -- my first time in a juried show. Late November, when the Circle Gallery show closed (excellent closing night party!) also seems very long ago:

Still Pliable

Quick update - my piece "Pliable" is currently at the MFA Circle Gallery in Annapolis. The closing night party is Sat., Nov. 22nd (4-6 pm).

Tracking the Dodo

Three of my pieces have been accepted into the “Second Time Around” show at Del Ray Artisans in Alexandria (all art made with recycled/repurposed materials). Starts Friday, Sept. 5th (reception 7-9 pm)!

Detail, "License"

The current show at Touchstone Gallery, where my piece "Pliable" is currently hanging, ends on Sept. 1 (they are generally open Wed-Sun 12-5 but will also be open on Labor Day).

Another small piece, "Moon Box" (which hung in last year's Artomatic) has been accepted for the upcoming multi-gallery "Women of the DMV" show. ("DMV"="DC, Maryland, Virginia." For some reason, my term "BalWash" has not caught on.) "Moon Box" will be at the McLean Project for the Arts from 9/11 to 11/1, with an opening party on Sept. 18th (7-9 pm).

More on the "Women of the DMV" show here.

dodo at Touchstone

 I am pleased (& bemused) to report that my piece "Pliable" is going to be in the Aug. 8-Sept. 1st show at Touchstone Gallery in downtown DC. The opening night party on Friday, 8/8 is from 5 to 8 p.m. Come say hi!

Wallmountables 2025

 It's that time again! DCAC is having its annual community art show, and I will have work in it, alongside friends of the collective Opulent Tarnish, Taina Litwak, Ursula Seckel, and many more!

The opening night party is tomorrow -- Friday, July 11th -- from 7 to 9 p.m. After that, the gallery is open from 2 to 7 p.m., Wed.-Sun., and the closing night party (& last chance to buy all that fabulous, inexpensive local art) is Sunday, Aug. 10th.

Go to real places and look at real art made by real people! No salesbot will come to your door.

Detail, "Grass Side (Hope)" - DJH, 2025

Ongoing series (DJH)

“Ways To Be Angry” WIP, 2025

Latest iteration (7/4/25) in a series that goes back, unsurprisingly, to late 2016…

An upside-down flag is a distress signal.