Adam Chamy
@adamchamy.bsky.social
🎨 Visual Artist
🌆 Architect and Urban Planner
🇵🇸🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 Queer Palestinian-American
📍Washington, DC
🌆 Architect and Urban Planner
🇵🇸🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 Queer Palestinian-American
📍Washington, DC
Over a year and a half of genocide.
This piece began as a reckoning—with memory, national symbols, and what it means to carry identity in diaspora.
A dove wing.
An olive branch. A kuffiyeh.
Each, a quiet form of nonviolent resistance—tied to the fence, and breaking through it.
This piece began as a reckoning—with memory, national symbols, and what it means to carry identity in diaspora.
A dove wing.
An olive branch. A kuffiyeh.
Each, a quiet form of nonviolent resistance—tied to the fence, and breaking through it.
July 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Over a year and a half of genocide.
This piece began as a reckoning—with memory, national symbols, and what it means to carry identity in diaspora.
A dove wing.
An olive branch. A kuffiyeh.
Each, a quiet form of nonviolent resistance—tied to the fence, and breaking through it.
This piece began as a reckoning—with memory, national symbols, and what it means to carry identity in diaspora.
A dove wing.
An olive branch. A kuffiyeh.
Each, a quiet form of nonviolent resistance—tied to the fence, and breaking through it.
🎨🛤🏳️🌈 This lady was too big to fit in my car — so we took the @wmata.com together. Delivered to the Eye Street Gallery in Navy Yard, DC where it’s now part of their latest exhibition.
June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎨🛤🏳️🌈 This lady was too big to fit in my car — so we took the @wmata.com together. Delivered to the Eye Street Gallery in Navy Yard, DC where it’s now part of their latest exhibition.
The Tourist
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Waxing and waning through moments of discovery or enveloped by the invisible as you hide amid a crowd?
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Waxing and waning through moments of discovery or enveloped by the invisible as you hide amid a crowd?
May 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Tourist
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Waxing and waning through moments of discovery or enveloped by the invisible as you hide amid a crowd?
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Waxing and waning through moments of discovery or enveloped by the invisible as you hide amid a crowd?
… the City Rose and Sank on the Long Legs of the Wild Camel
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
… the City Rose and Sank on the Long Legs of the Wild Camel
The Tourist
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
April 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Tourist
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
Are you too a wanderer? A traveler? A truth seeker of dreams kneeling under the celestial gaze of a moon? A sun? Another world?
…this is where time goes…
Watercolor and gouache on deaccessioned paper
5” x 7.25”
Painted on a page exhumed from The Lance of Kanana, a 19th-century Orientalist text.
Post 1/3
Watercolor and gouache on deaccessioned paper
5” x 7.25”
Painted on a page exhumed from The Lance of Kanana, a 19th-century Orientalist text.
Post 1/3
April 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
…this is where time goes…
Watercolor and gouache on deaccessioned paper
5” x 7.25”
Painted on a page exhumed from The Lance of Kanana, a 19th-century Orientalist text.
Post 1/3
Watercolor and gouache on deaccessioned paper
5” x 7.25”
Painted on a page exhumed from The Lance of Kanana, a 19th-century Orientalist text.
Post 1/3
The Shell House
Digitally collage and #Watercolor
#illustration #shortstory #art #artsky
Excerpt of short story in thread below
Digitally collage and #Watercolor
#illustration #shortstory #art #artsky
Excerpt of short story in thread below
April 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Shell House
Digitally collage and #Watercolor
#illustration #shortstory #art #artsky
Excerpt of short story in thread below
Digitally collage and #Watercolor
#illustration #shortstory #art #artsky
Excerpt of short story in thread below
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The Indistinguishable Noises of the Night
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
The Indistinguishable Noises of the Night
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
April 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The Indistinguishable Noises of the Night
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
The Indistinguishable Noises of the Night
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
Figs Ripen in Conquered Margins
Watercolor and Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
7.5” x 5”
Watercolor and Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
7.5” x 5”
March 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Figs Ripen in Conquered Margins
Watercolor and Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
7.5” x 5”
Watercolor and Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
7.5” x 5”
More pulling apart an old 1920s mildly racist orientalist texts and remaking it.
Migrating on Borrowed Winds
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
#art #artofblsky #palestinianart
Migrating on Borrowed Winds
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
#art #artofblsky #palestinianart
March 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
More pulling apart an old 1920s mildly racist orientalist texts and remaking it.
Migrating on Borrowed Winds
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
#art #artofblsky #palestinianart
Migrating on Borrowed Winds
#Watercolor and #Gouache on Deaccessioned Paper
5” x 7.5”
#art #artofblsky #palestinianart
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
Lunar Return
Watercolor and Paper on Found Window
24” x 30”
#art #collage #assemblage #watercolor #mixedmedia #artist #moon
Lunar Return
Watercolor and Paper on Found Window
24” x 30”
#art #collage #assemblage #watercolor #mixedmedia #artist #moon
March 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
Lunar Return
Watercolor and Paper on Found Window
24” x 30”
#art #collage #assemblage #watercolor #mixedmedia #artist #moon
Lunar Return
Watercolor and Paper on Found Window
24” x 30”
#art #collage #assemblage #watercolor #mixedmedia #artist #moon
March 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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March 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM