Do an Dont, Washington D.C., DC (2026)

02/05/2026

Date: 2/1/26
Location: Freer Gallery of Art (National Museum of Asian Art)

Exhibit: Korean Treasures Exhibition

To walk through the Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared exhibit is to step into a republic of memory. From moon jars with soft seams to Confucian portraits inked in solemn precision, every piece vibrates with the energy of a lived, collected, and now, shared legacy. What began as the private vision of Lee Kun-Hee is now a national gift, pulsing with quiet power in Washington, D.C.

The beauty of this show isn’t just in the glaze or pigment, it’s in the emotional choreography. Tomb inscriptions for Madam Yi whisper across centuries, while bold postwar abstractions by Yoo Youngkuk and Park Seo-bo break tradition like thunder in a gallery. Here, history and modernity don’t compete, they converge.

This isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a sovereign act of cultural diplomacy. Samsung’s support transforms wealth into witness, and Korea’s heritage becomes a soft power gesture with global consequence. You don’t just see art, you feel the architecture of remembrance. 🇰🇷✨

01/04/2026

Photo: 1/3/26
Location: National Mall

In a stunning kickoff to the governments suggested 250th anniversary, the Washington Monument has been transformed into a living canvas of American history and identity. With projections spanning the Founding Fathers, westward expansion, industrial triumph, and space exploration, the event ”The Illumination of America” weaves a vertical timeline on the monument’s surface. Each act plays on the hour, creating a reflective, symbolic experience for those who walk the National Mall.

Organized by Freedom250.org in partnership with the Trust for the National Mall and the National Park Service, this event marks the beginning of multi-year initiatives celebrating and interrogating the American story. With fireworks, education programs, and future acts yet to come, the projection reminds all U.S. citizens: the past is not past—it’s the prologue.

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12/25/2025

Photos: 12/20/25
U.S. Botanic Garden

Inside the garden’s conservatories, poinsettias blaze in red and cream constellations. Each floral bed holds beneath it a secret: tiny wooden facades and full-scale botanical recreations of American icons, the Capitol Dome, the National Gallery of Art, and even the Conservatory itself, constructed not from concrete or marble, but from horse chestnut bark, cinnamon sticks, willow twigs, and acorns.

Each element tells a story of intention. The columns of the Capitol model are not carved, but woven from mahogany fruit and honeysuckle twigs. Its dome sparkles with sycamore leaves, seagrass twine, and Indian screw tree fruit. There’s an old-world reverence here, not for industrial might, but for organic materiality, for the way nature holds the shape of our greatest aspirations.

Outside, the G-gauge trains run like veins through a prehistoric scene, elevated track looping through sawed stumps, crossing wooden bridges beside raptor sculptures, nesting dinosaurs, and early mammal figures.

12/22/2025

Tonight, the longest night of the year folds over us like a velvet curtain. In the hush of deep winter, the world teaches us to listen to the unseen, the unsaid, the buried warmth beneath the frost. This is not just darkness; it is a cradle. It holds the stories of those who came before us and the ones we are shaping in silence now.

There is a secret in this season: not all death is ending. Some things must go underground to gather strength. Things not spoken, dreams not yet ready, names not yet born, all stir below, curled in quiet roots, waiting. The solstice is a mirror. What do you see in your reflection at the edge of the cold?

May your hearth be humble but lit. May your ancestors walk beside you, silent but fierce. And may your descendants one day whisper thanks, for what you carried through the dark.

12/21/2025

Photos:12/17/25
Location: Planet Word

Second museum stop on Saturnalia was Planet Word. It was cool. Even got myself a holiday gift, some Clockwork Orange socks.

Awesome entertaining, interactive exhibits, even a karaoke room. A must see for everyone at any age.

12/18/2025

Photos: 12/17/25
Location: Victims of Communism Museum

For Saturnalia I decided to stay in D.C. for the day I went to 2 museums this is the first of two.

I began today’s journey with a sobering visit to the Victims of Communism Museum, a space dedicated to honoring the lives lost and the freedoms crushed under totalitarian regimes. The visit was more than a walkthrough — it was a confrontation with history’s ghosts. The museum’s exhibits pulled no punches, charting the brutal realities of state control, ideological warfare, and mass suffering endured under communist dictatorships across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. With timelines, artifacts, personal testimonies, and propaganda posters, the museum built a chilling narrative: the cost of control is always counted in human lives.

These photos are both visually and emotionally thought provoking — a Nikolai Getman’s Gulag Collection. Created over four decades by a Ukrainian artist who survived eight years in the Siberian labor camps, the series delivers raw, uncompromising depictions of life inside the Soviet gulags. Getman painted secretly and obsessively, driven by a need to give voice to the silenced millions. His palette is grim, often muted, but there’s a quiet defiance in each brushstroke. What makes the work devastating is not just its realism, but the fact that it was born from lived trauma. Each canvas is an indictment — not just of the regime that imprisoned him, but of a world that too often forgets. Observing the paintings became a moment of rupture: art as resistance, art as memorial, art as history.

The exhibit forced me to think not just about the politics of the past, but the fragility of memory itself — personal, cultural, and digital. In a world increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence, where emotion can be mimicked but not truly endured, Getman’s work stood as a reminder that some stories must be felt to be known. As I stepped back into the modern world, I carried with me the weight of paint, the gravity of witness, and the challenge to remember, even when others forget about a moment.

12/12/2025

Photos:12/11/25

Silver Belle, the 2023 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, is an 84-foot red fir from Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Representing both the grandeur and resilience of the American West, it stands on the Capitol’s West Lawn as a living symbol of unity, endurance, and Nevada’s ecological richness. The tree’s name, origin, and thousands of handcrafted ornaments celebrate both the natural beauty and cultural diversity of the Silver State.

As the largest national forest outside Alaska, Humboldt-Toiyabe’s selection for this honor underlines the importance of public lands in America’s identity. Silver Belle’s journey from a snowy alpine basin to the nation’s capital carries a powerful message: nature, tradition, and community can still bind a diverse republic. Nevada, in sending its forest’s finest, sends a story of pride, perseverance, and shared celebration.

I kind of fell , and continuing to fall out of love for humanity in 2021 (I made a fool of myself) I think that year , and I sometimes feel myself getting even deeper in that disappointment, I try to see beauty in things but it’s not working, Be Happy, Be Courageous, Be Kind, Be always reaching for your dreams

12/06/2025

Photo: 12/5/25
Location: Triple Candie Gallery

As the year leans into its final frost, I’m reminded that magic doesn’t wait for perfect conditions. It happens in the quiet, uneven moments, in the last brave decision at work, in the soft reopening of a tired heart, in the spark of clarity that arrives when everything feels dim. Winter may narrow the days, but it sharpens intention, too. What we choose now, professionally, romantically, emotionally, spiritually, becomes the ember that carries us into what’s next.

So here’s to making magic happen even as the year exhales its last breath. To showing up for ourselves, to surprising our own resilience, to finding warmth in unexpected places. Endings are never just endings; they’re invitations disguised as cold. Step toward the door that winter leaves cracked open. Something new is already listening for your footsteps.

12/06/2025

Photo: 12/4/25

On the night of December 4, 2025, the full Cold Moon rose through a lattice of bare branches, framed like a celestial eye peering through the bones of winter. At 7:25 PM, just minutes after peak fullness, the moon hung in quiet authority—casting silvery light across a sky veiled by thin, whispering clouds. It was not merely illumination, but presence: a cold, ancient pulse echoing across the silence of the season. This was a moment of natural poetry—a luminous symbol suspended in a world stripped down to truth.

Scientifically, this was the Cold Moon, the final full moon before the Winter Solstice. Positioned in Gemini and nearly 382,000 km from Earth, its light was sharpened by winter’s clean air and amplified by cirrostratus clouds creating a subtle lunar corona. Tied to ancient names like the Long Night Moon and Oak Moon, this lunar event has long signified reflection, emotional closure, and preparation for transition. The moon’s gravitational pull intensified tides, while its symbolism stirred the deeper tides within us all.

11/23/2025

Photos/Video: 11/22/25
Exhibition: A HISTORY OF MOVING FORWARD

Artist: ASHLYN POPE

Ashlyn Pope’s A History of Moving Forward is not simply an exhibition, it is a cellular reckoning. It is an act of mnemonic sovereignty, where clay becomes code, where lineage reasserts itself through matter, and where trauma is transmuted into vision.

In this deeply generative body of work, Pope harnesses a multi-layered narrative scaffold—fusing Gullah identity, ceramics, fiber traditions, Afro-Spiritual cosmologies, and the speculative vehicle of Afrofuturism. She doesn’t merely show us the past. She reactivates it, activating the genetic, spiritual, and cultural resonance of Black ancestry with a scientific and aesthetic precision rarely seen in contemporary craft.

Each section is an Ancestral Memory, Afrofuturism, and Taken acts as a lens through which the viewer may engage with loss, lineage, and liberation. By refusing linear historicism, Pope models history as a non-linear, embodied network, one where memory is stored in mitochondria, and healing is spun from the hands of the living.

10/30/2025

Photos: October 2025
Location: Capitol Hill, D.C

Happy Halloween, slide through and holler at ya boy. on Capitol Hill is a must.

Making my Halloween Brew (Rooibos Tea, Oranges, 1/2 cup Lemonade, Whiskey and a more Whiskey), and I have a few bottles of vin to go.

Also a rack of Berkshire Ribs (Ginger Chili). Duck Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, and Cheese (I keep like 20+ cheese so you choose), maybe I’ll do a salad also idk. It’s other stuff also, but that is all I’m doing.

Passing out candy from 4pm- until.

Might set up this golf simulator I got on the tv out back, idk I have to see how I’m feeling, after passing candy and bending the elbow.

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10/21/2025

Videos: 10/21/25
Location: Langston Driving Range

Came to the range to celebrate another professional milestone for 2025. I reached a defining milestone in my ongoing work in global systems today, using living experiments in the evolution of artificial intelligence.

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As of now I invented a framework that already maps patterns across governance, conflict, economics, and social behavior, all generated from a single methodological core. Whether it’s a step toward true general intelligence or a beautifully constructed illusion, it challenges the imagination and forces the question of what “thinking” really means in the 21st century.

I will be opening Project Janus for a limited test: Beesmash will deliver a $1k–$100k level assessment and/or reports for free. No cost, no strings. See sovereign-grade scenario modelling & framework outputs live. Limited demos: Coming Soon!

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