“Gate Keeper Bloom”
Leather, Jacquard, wire, beads, reclaimed packaging
16x20 shadow box frame
We do not rival the garden,
we echo it—
and in the echo, warped and warm,
our imperfection blooms closest to truth.
A bloom not of excess, but of passage;
a keeper of beauty at the gate
Truth between legacy and renewal.
Not @dmweeks_ hand delivering this beauty all the way from LA!!🥰
Pretty sure he has absolutely outdone himself with this one because…WHAT DO YOU EVEN SAY AFTER THIS??!!
#myfriendsarebetterthanyours
#obsessed
#portrait
#taurusseason
Featured Artist: @dmweeks_
What does it cost to carry a version of ourselves that refuses to bend? In our current exhibition, Se7en, we dive into the complexities of the human condition, and few pieces capture the weight of internal conflict like DMWeeks’ “Pride.”
This paper assemblage is more than a visual study; it is a “grinning relic” of the moments we choose our own ego over our own peace. DMWeeks, a multidisciplinary visually impaired artist, utilizes a heightened sensitivity to texture and composition to create work that resonates far beyond the surface. In this piece, he explores how pride can devour the “softer things”—mercy, doubt, and humility—leaving behind a quiet confession of the slow, certain hand of the self.
The intricate layering and profound depth of this work must be appreciated in person to feel the full resonance of its message.
“Pride”
Paper Assemblage | 18” x 18”
$666
I fed it names, victories, reflections—
until it devoured the softer things:
mercy, doubt, the bend of humility.
Now this grinning relic remains,
all teeth and silence—
a quiet confession of the kill.
- @dmweeks_
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“Laughing @A Distance”
Cut and sewn paper assemblage in 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 shadow box frame.
2026
You step outside your own outline just a half-inch shift,
a loosened grip on the script you swore was sacred.
Suddenly,
the storm you named “everything”
is just weather passing through a window.
There you are—
center stage, overcommitted, overcast,
wringing meaning from moments
like they owed you something.
And from this slight distance
you see the choreography:
the missed cues,
the dramatic pauses no one asked for,
the way you clutched a paper crown.
It’s almost unbearable—
how serious you were.
Almost.
Then it breaks
You laugh
because you were both the actor
and the audience
and somehow forgot the difference.
You laugh
because the weight you carried
never signed a contract.
As dad would say “if we’re not laughing, we’re crying”
You laugh
because there you are—still—
perfectly human,
perfectly ridiculous,
trying so hard
in a universe that never asked you to strain.
“Silence Answers Back”
Cut and sewn paper assemblage 7 3/4 x 7 3x4 framed
2026
To let silence speak for you
is not absence—it is placement.
It is choosing where not to mark the surface,
so the eye begins to wander,
to trace the negative space like a map of something buried.
A margin becomes a whisper.
A gap becomes a pulse.
What isn’t said gathers weight,
pressing against the visible until the visible bends.
Silence is the ink you don’t see.
The thread beneath the embroidery.
The image behind the image.
It teaches the eye to listen.
And those who know how to look
will hear everything you never said.
Kind of like how Claude Debussy said, “Music is the space between the notes.”
Now, rest.
Hello and please help celebrate my best good buddy Dave Weeks. For no other reason than I love him.
Years ago (when we were just buddies not best good buddies) me and Emily went down to see his work at @tinyroomforelephants and Em won his original artwork for a pinball machine he reskinned. And that set the beginnings of a beautiful friendship into motion.
Yesterday I got the art back from the homies @greenpointframes and I just wanted to share it with the world.
Shout out @thetomroland for the water jet hook up to make his signature metal.
Shout out @emilybaldasarra for photos and for always spitballing curation and creative ideas.
And shout out @dmweeks_ for being a light in this world. Love you big dog.
Thank you all for being a friend!
“L’immensité aveugle domine”
Sewn cut paper assemblage
12x12 2026
The immensity is not the size of the object,
but the density of what it withholds.
It dominates because every fragment insists on being felt individually, yet refuses to reveal the whole at once.
A blind architecture of repetition and rupture, where each cut letter becomes a tiny wall, each stitch a whispered attempt to hold the void together.
“Living Among Demons”
12x12 cut paper assemblage
2026
To live here is to learn the uneasy grace of holding a mirror in one hand and a lantern in the other—so we can see what hunts us, and what we might yet become
