Artist Statement

The work I create is meant to serve as mirror, reflecting the inherent beauty that coincides with the unraveling of civilized society.

As an artist deeply concerned with the physiological and environmental implications of mechanized culture, I have chosen to challenge the themes and topics associated with industrialization.

Ironically, the technological advancements that I am so quick to criticize conspire intimately with my artistic process. Photography as well as digitally based media serves as the anchor for my work. Focusing on ideas of ecology and domestication of the natural world, paired with the aesthetic visual themes of pattern and repetition, I am able to convey a bizarre feeling of oppression and beauty.

My work holds insight into what it means to be civilized and live in a civilized society. Rapid technological advancement has ostracized humans from nature. In the blink of an eye mankind has lost thousands of years of senses acquired in the wilderness that were essential to our own survival as well as the earths. Separated from nature, we have become its enemy, constructing artificial systems of security for our own survival. We are domesticated, afraid and separated from what we once called home for so long.

-Adam