Artist Statement
That is what I paint.

My work is Washington, D.C. — not the monument version, but the lived one. The H Street corridor. The old streetcar routes. The row homes. The tent cities beneath underpasses. The sunrise over a neighborhood elementary school. I use whatever it takes — acrylics, oil pastels, watercolors, markers, spray paint — because the city doesn't come in a single texture either.

I paint to hold space for what gets overlooked: neighbors without homes, veterans lost to suicide, communities quietly displaced by a city that keeps moving. I paint because it saved me, and because I believe that if you look closely enough at the things most people pass by, you will find something worth stopping for.

The world may blur. It may shift beneath you. But the soul of what matters remains clear. Since 2018, when a rare condition permanently modified how I see, through a double vision prism. I see light in layers, what is a visual disability my art practice turned into a strength. In my vision doubling I see shadows that shift into unexpected colors.

— Jeremiah Foxwell, Washington, D.C.