In a Cocoon, Eyes Open (wall object)
Wood, wool, stone, resin, acrylic
10 1/4" x 2 1/2" x 2 3/4"d
2025
$80 + shipping for the month of November 2025 only
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Monthly Art: October 2025
Beretta Series 950
Paper and candy wrapper collage on cardboard (hook on back)
9 3/4" x 7 1/2"
2025
SOLD
The story behind this piece goes something like this: My parents emigrated to the US in 1965. They initially lived in a cheap place with a crooked floor above a sailor Bar in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC - it still stands today, on the same block as the Hustler Club - and were very poor. Eventually my father, a trained architect, landed an associate professorship and they moved to Ann Arbor, MI, and then to Baton Rouge, LA; finally he became a full professor at UT and the family moved to Austin, TX (where the third kid - me - was born).
When my father, a white man, taught at all-black Southern University in Baton Rouge, he received death threats from the KKK. Only many years later did he tell my mom this, and that he had bought a gun for protection and had hidden it under the bed.
We are a family that doesn’t particularly like guns and believes in strong gun regulation, so this came as a bit of a shock. But such were the times. And lately it feels like the disquiet and danger of that period have returned.
I’ve been organizing photos and letters I took from my mom’s Munich apartment after she died, and recently found a tiny old manual for the Beretta 950 series among these things. I used the title image for this collage, turning it into the odd creature’s head. I can’t be sure that this manual is from my dad’s gun back then, but I suspect it is.
When my father, a white man, taught at all-black Southern University in Baton Rouge, he received death threats from the KKK. Only many years later did he tell my mom this, and that he had bought a gun for protection and had hidden it under the bed.
We are a family that doesn’t particularly like guns and believes in strong gun regulation, so this came as a bit of a shock. But such were the times. And lately it feels like the disquiet and danger of that period have returned.
I’ve been organizing photos and letters I took from my mom’s Munich apartment after she died, and recently found a tiny old manual for the Beretta 950 series among these things. I used the title image for this collage, turning it into the odd creature’s head. I can’t be sure that this manual is from my dad’s gun back then, but I suspect it is.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Saturday, August 2, 2025
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Monthly Art: June 2025
Wildlife Behind Plastic 14 (wall object)
Plastic, paper, embroidery thread, stone
10 1/4" x 3 1/2" x 1 1/4" d
2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Art from the Archives this May Day
Today I am going to my 5th protest this year. I really recommend it: We make clear that Americans are NOT ok with this rising fascism & lawlessness in our country, and you feel a heck of a lot less alone in your recurring feelings of fear & hopelessness. Plus, the signs are a delight to look at. I always come away feeling refreshed and stronger. It’s energy that we all need.
For you New Yorkers: 5pm at Foley Square, start moving 5:45pm to Battery Park.
Some art from the archives:
1. Statue of Liberty, 2021
2. The Great Entertainer, 2020
3. Replacement Theory Made (Great Again) in America, 2021
4. If I Don’t Win It’s Fraud, 2021
5. Block His Progress, 2020
#Collage #ContemporaryArt #Democracy #ProtectDemocracy #DontFearTheBully #WakeUpAmerica #halonahilbertz
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