Overview: In this solo episode (ep 153), Adam Williams talks about the building blocks of the creative process, using the intuitive flow of his “scrawl abstracts” artwork, like his digital painting “Don’t be fucking ridiculous … I just wear stars! (General Baron Jacques),” as an example. (Released on podcast on Read more…
My scrawl-abstract artwork continues to take on experimentation. Textures, scrawled writing and historical photographs still are central elements of it. But comparing scrawl-abstracts I’ve done over the past year, or so, the evolution and shifting sands become clear. Notably, there has been a return to stylistic aspects that were part of Read more…
I spent a good portion of a recent evening pulling images from the Library of Congress archives for use in my ongoing “scrawl” abstracts art series I’ve been working on. Scrawl-abstracts. That’s what I’ve been calling them. It’s the best I’ve got, so far. I usually have naming ideas and Read more…
I’m still buzzing with a WTF-just-happened creative exuberance the morning after. Five hours last night, including dinner break with my family. Seventy-six (76) iconographic works, made from 5:36 p.m. to 10:36 p.m., an exactitude that was as unplanned as every other aspect of this singular evening of creative explosion. I Read more…
The work I posted a while back about emerging from a yearlong hiatus continues to stack up and evolve. I have posted some on Instagram, a tool I do not use much these days. So much is lost in viewing these works at such a small size on a phone Read more…
Emerging From Hiatus, New Artwork // I’ve been making new work after nearly a year of creative hiatus from the Humanitou podcast, art making, blogging, poetry and the Humanitou newsletter. With this new visual artwork, I’m speaking more to current events, to what exhaustingly feels like years of brinkmanship with Read more…
I’ve been creating work that feels all over the place. I have a lot of interests. And maybe I’m still trying to figure out who I am creatively; maybe I always will be. I appreciate the work of many others, and so I absorb many influences. I see threads I Read more…
In a new series of abstract artworks, I’m exploring an overlap of areas that interest me: simplicity, meditation, solitude, spirituality, nature, clarity, connection, circles, balance, abstraction … I’m choosing to use only black, blue and white in this work. I’ve come to the abstract visual of rock cairns as a Read more…