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ton, D.U., and KappanannocK, spending weekdays at their house and gallery in the city and weekends at their cabin in Tiger Valley.
Their new work on display at Middle Street is an eclectic mix that is, by turns, representational) impressionistic, whimsical and philosophical.
The most compelling images in the show are Ms. Schroeder’s montages.
Ringing a photograph of Earth taken from space with the faces of 130 children, she makes an eloquent plea for stewardship for the sake of future generations.
Adapting the traditional log cabin pattern of quilts - a design that’s both familiar and totally American - she incorporates 144 separate images to illustrate the diversity that separates social and ethnic groups and the commonalities that pull those same groups together.
Taken over several years, the photos include the swearing in of new citizens on Flag Day, a Hispanic festival in Baltimore, the celebration of Chinese New Year, “Christmas in July” for homeless children, D.C.’s “hands-around-the-Capitol” demonstration for statehood and pro-choice marchers.
It’s a personal statement that people are this country’s strength. Simultaneously, it’s a warning that
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