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We Miss You
At Hamiltonian Artists through June 19
Like the rest of us, Kaitlin Jencso endured the coronavirus pandemic. As a photographer, The District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency is your homeownership she decided to mark time during the lost year resource in the District from buying a home to retaining your home; we through her photographs, turning them into have a homeownership program to assist you. something like tally marks scrawled on a wall to count the days as they pass. The result is We Miss You, a site-specific collection of more than 1,000 images mounted DC Open Doors DC Open Doors is your key to DC Open Doors at Hamiltonian Artists. Jencso has painstakDCOpen Open Doors DC Doors is your key homeownership the homeownership intotothe city. Thisininprogram offers competitive DC Open Doors your competitive key homeownership the city. This programisoffers interest rates and ingly hung this mass of documentary material city. 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Development’s (DHCD) first-time home buyer program. program. program. to $5,000 for up six loans months The exhibit opened in May. HPAP provides interest free to deferred for downfor qualified homeowners. Reverse Mortgage Insurance & Tax Payment Program Jencso calls the exhibit a “diary of monotony serves as a co-administrator of this DC DepartmentReMIT of Housing provides and Communityfinancial assistance to seniors 62 (ReMIT) and confinement.” A few individual images Development’s (DHCD) first-time home buyer on insurance years or older who have fallen behind years older who have fallen behind on insurance program. and taxor a result ofhave their mortgage. years or older who fallen behind on insurance and tax Borrower Qualifications: years orpayments older who as have fallen onreverse insurance explicitly communicate a sense of claustroand tax payments as afallen resultbehind of can their reverse years or older who as have onreceive insurance Qualified District homeowners upmortgage. to and tax payments a result ofbehind their reverse mortgage. and tax payments as a and result of their reverse mortgage. Qualified District homeowners can receive up to payments as a result of their reverse mortgage. Qualified • Must be borrower’s primary residence must located phobia—a male figure captured in the bathQualified District homeowners canbe receive up toin Qualified District homeowners can receive up to the District of Columbia District homeowners can receive up to $25,000 in assistance. room, for instance, or a woman photographed • Must have been current asolder of the 1st payment (prior to years or who March have fallen behind on insurance while hemmed in tightly by house siding. But and tax payments as a result of their reverse mortgage. DC4ME DC4ME provides mortgage assistance with optional being affected by COVID-19) DC4ME provides mortgage assistance optional Qualified District homeowners canassistance receive upwith to with DC4ME provides mortgage optional others show the open (if desolate) spaces of DC4ME provides mortgage assistance with optional DC4ME provides mortgage assistance with optional down assistance to D.C. government down payment assistance to D.C. government employees. downpayment payment assistance D.C. government • Must be able to document income affected to COVID-19 down payment assistance totoD.C. government down payment assistance totodue D.C. government employees. DC4ME offered to current full-time employees.DC4ME DC4MEisisis offered current full-time the Chesapeake Bay region; Jensco is from employees. offered to current full-time employees. DC4ME is offered to current full-time DC4ME is offered to current full-time District government District government employees, including employees • Borrower must be the borrower on theemployees, home loan, not just aemployees District government employees, including District government including employees government employees, including employees Southern Maryland and made many of the ofDistrict District government-based instrumentalities, ofDistrict government-based instrumentalities, of District government-based instrumentalities, member of the household DC4ME provides mortgage assistance with optional employees, including employees of District government-based of District government-based instrumentalities, independent agencies,to D.C. Public Charter Schools, independent agencies, D.C. Public Charter Schools, independent agencies, D.C. Public Charter Schools, down payment assistance D.C. government images outside of locked down, urban D.C. and organizations, provided the applicant/borrower's independent agencies, D.C. Public Charter Schools, • Must show proof that theorganizations, borrower not eligible for employees. DC4ME isisprovided offered to current full-time and organizations, the applicant/borrower's and provided the applicant/borrower's instrumentalities, independent employer fallsunder under theoversight oversight theCouncil Councilofofagencies, D.C. 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Public Charter Schools, portraiture, still life, landscape, abstraction— servicer and/or Hardest Hit Funds theorganizations, District of provided Columbia. and the applicant/borrower's employer falls under the oversight of the Council of the District employerafter falls under oversight of the Council of • If borrower is still affected the the CARES Act ends, then but a few visual themes recur through her theof District of Columbia. COVID-19 Columbia. relief may be offered COVID-19 at that time (See additional terms) installation, including lampposts and fences DC MAP COVID-19 provides financial assistance to COVID-19 DC MAP COVID-19 provides financial assistance to COVID-19 thoseaffected affected by(Mortgage theimpacts impactsofofthe theCOVID-19 COVID-19 those by the at night, Terri Weifenbach-style close-ups DC MAP Assistance DC MAP COVID-19 providescan financial assistance toProgram) COVID-19 pandemic. Qualified borrowers receive a loan of COVID-19 DC MAP COVID-19 provides financial assistance to pandemic. Qualified can receive a loan of those bymonth theborrowers impacts of assistance the COVID-19 upMAP toaffected $5,000 per toput puttoward toward their mortgage of hedges, and lots and lots of moody water DC COVID-19 provides financial to financial assistance to those DC MAP COVID-19 provides up to $5,000 per month to their mortgage those affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 For a full borrower qualifications and pandemic. Qualified borrowers can receive a loan of loan terms, visit forlist upto toof six months. those affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 for up six months. pandemic. Qualified borrowers can receive a loan of imagery, sometimes sun dappled, sometimes up to $5,000 per month to put toward their mortgage pandemic. Qualified borrowers can receive a loan ofthe affected by the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. 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by pairing wispy, squiggly helices against a deep blue sky with a cluster of robust, orange leaves, put together in a satisfying triptych. The images vary widely in size. Many are snapshot size, while others are 24 by 36 inches or larger, including the thematically appropriate image of a glitchy electronic sign for a middle school; its barely spelled out message lends the exhibit its title, “We miss you.” In one impressive arrangement, Jencso offers three similar but distinct images of a female figure in a clearing in the distance, gently lit in an Edenic garden. Ultimately, though, despite such finely crafted individual images, We Miss You is best understood in its whole, as a near stream-ofconsciousness tide of imagery, rather than seen as individual parts. The pacing of the exhibit is improvisational, with elliptical gaps, rather than regimented and regular. Doing it this way was smart: The weakest portions of the exhibit are the ones in which Jencso mushed a lot of similar images into closely packed grids, without breathing space. These may have been intended to elucidate the psychic suffocation of quarantine, but they end up suggesting a kind of sensory overload that comes from being too close to other people, rather than being socially distanced. (Another nitpick: Jencso has mounted some of her images too high on the wall to see clearly, especially for those of us with aging eyesight.) It’s also surprising and worth noting that, while the flow of images roughly documents a chronological year, the changing seasons play a minimal role as the works proceed from the start of the pandemic to the end. This only bolsters the notion of a messed up flow of time during the pandemic. Unsurprisingly, and perhaps understandably, Jencso’s images become somewhat less absorbing as the pandemic year crawls to its end, and many become moodier and darker. But her final images include a series of seven photographs hung vertically in a row, each offering a black-and-white variation of dancing points of light on water. Together, these seven at once communicate a sense of calm—and a dash of hope—that suggest that the lost year is finally morphing into something new, and more familiar. —Louis Jacobson 1353 U St. NW, Suite 101. (202) 332-1116. More information, including coronavirus safety measures, at hamiltonianartists.org. An artists’ talk (in person and streamed virtually) is scheduled for 7 p.m. on June 16.
