Statement

Like the brief, expectant encounter of an opened bloom giving way to the certainty of dry and friable petals, so too do we inevitably give way to our own transience of being. My work is a visual response to my own search for a sympathetic connection to the physicality of being and the intuition of spirituality.

Approached as meditations on the construct of humanness, my work delves into corporeal identity and instinctive desire. Through repetition and pattern I create an ordered logic at odds with the seemingly haphazard sensibility of nature. Of particular interest to me is the validity of randomness and chance. I search for evidence of the existence of an underlying order and cool logic beyond our comprehension or control.
The limitless, relentless onslaught of time and transformational effects of nature are most readily experienced through the botanical world, where continuous cycles of births and deaths serve to condense a lifetime into a mere meteorological season. I utilize this self-contained cosm of plants as a paradigm onto which I project states of illness and virility, anomaly and normalcy.
 

– Renee Adams