Further Installation Complexity: DCWall&Maze – The Four Walls and Their Verticals
DCWall&Maze — 80 horizontal paintings as four enclosing walls · 80 vertical paintings on free-standing panels forming a maze, for the viewer to be surrounded in the events of Washington, DC, 2020–2026. Rendering history in reportage.
| DCWall1& Verticals 1 |
Horizontal wall — 20 paintings assembled, 88×150in Outside. The streets of Washington, DC during the elections, 2020–2026: the Supreme Court, the Capitol, the National Mall, the White House, Arlington, the neighborhoods. |
| DCWall2& Verticals 2 this page |
Horizontal wall — 20 paintings assembled, 88×150in Inside. Rainy days, 2020–2025. Still lifes painted in the apartments of Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom, Dupont Circle — the domestic world while the public world raged outside. |
| DCWall3& Verticals 3 |
Horizontal wall — 20 paintings assembled, 88×150in Outside. The streets of Washington, DC during the summer of 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the United States, painted live on the National Mall and surrounding spaces. |
| DCWall4& Verticals 4 |
Horizontal wall — 20 paintings assembled, 88×150in Inside. Rainy days during the 250th summer of 2026. Still lifes painted in the same interiors as DCWall2 — the celebration pressing through the windows the way the elections and the protests did before. |
DCWall&Maze — Square Room Plan (schematic)
DCWall&Maze — Axonometric View from Entrance Corner
Verticals 1 — The Street Life Panels
Alongside the twenty horizontal watercolors that compose DCWall1, twenty vertical street paintings — each 30×22 inches, portrait format — were made during the same years in the same streets. These are not part of the assembled wall. They are the free-standing panels that stand inside the room and direct the viewer through it.
The vertical format is the way a figure stands, the way you face someone across a street. Where the horizontal wall surrounds you, the vertical paintings face you — one painting, one viewer, one day. They are intimate in a way the wall cannot be.
The Verticals 1 watercolors can also be exhibited independently of the full installation: as a sequence in any gallery, in groups, or as individual works. Each is a finished, self-contained painting.
Examples of the Street Life Verticals 1 Watercolors:
Verticals 2 — The Still Life Panels
Alongside the twenty horizontal watercolors that compose DCWall2, twenty vertical still lifes — each 30×22 inches, portrait format — were made during the same years in the same interiors. These are not part of the assembled wall. They are the free-standing panels that stand inside the room and direct the viewer through it.
The vertical format is the way a figure stands, the way you face someone across a table. Where the horizontal wall surrounds you, the vertical paintings face you — one painting, one viewer, one day. They are intimate in a way the wall cannot be.
The Verticals 2 watercolors can also be exhibited independently of the full installation: as a sequence in any gallery, in groups, or as individual works. Each is a finished, self-contained painting.
Examples of the Still Life Verticals 2 Watercolors:
DCWall – Room of Horizontals Four ventitych wall panels, each assembled from twenty 22×30 inch watercolors, enclosing a room. See the DCWall page →
DCWall&Maze – Full Installation The four horizontal walls with eighty vertical paintings standing as free-standing maze panels inside the room. See the Acquisition Proposal →
DC Streets and Still Lifes – Individual Paintings All 450 on-site watercolors from Washington, DC, 2020–2026, available as individual works. See the full series →