ADAM

My Boy Leo

Ultimately this is a work about tending. Painting becomes a way to tend presence when that presence has shifted. Through color, texture and emblematic form I try to keep a likeness of feeling alive—a place where others can come to remember, grieve, celebrate and, perhaps, find luck in shared recollection.

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F&ck a Duck

My process is deliberately performative. I alternate between the spontaneity of quick drawing and the deliberate labor of building texture with a palette knife. I scrape back and draw over paint to reveal what came before, treating each abrasion as a moment of honesty. In this way the surface becomes a palimpsest: a record of decisions, revisions and discarded impulses. The work asks the viewer to inhabit an in-between space, where meanings shimmer and language becomes image. I am less interested in defining an object than in staging an experience—an ephemeral encounter with sound, motion and memory held together by paint.

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