Artist Atticus Adams

Atticus Adams – Artist Statement

In the spring of 1845 Henry David Thoreau said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Thus, Thoreau began his famous life experiment on the edge of Walden pond.

In the fall of 2005 I came to Pittsburgh. Here I found a place that I could simplify my life and focus on making art. I wanted to take materials that I found inherently beautiful: metal mesh, wire, broken auto glass, etc… and see what I could learn from them. By providing an intuitive creative direction of their own, I became engaged in the mystery of the creative process and the joy of that experience.

Quoting Thoreau again:
“I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with a license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”

Pittsburgh has been my Walden.

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	Atticus Adams – Artist Statement In the spring of 1845 Henry David Thoreau said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Thus, Thoreau began his famous life experiment on the edge of Walden pond. In the fall of 2005 I came to Pittsburgh. Here I found a place that I could simplify my life and focus on making art. I wanted to take materials that I found inherently beautiful: metal mesh, wire, broken auto glass, etc… and see what I could learn from them. By providing an intuitive creative direction of their own, I became engaged in the mystery of the creative process and the joy of that experience. Quoting Thoreau again: “I learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with a license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Pittsburgh has been my Walden. Resume Education coming soon Exhibitions Solo coming soon Group coming soon Publications coming soon Awards coming soon Collections coming soon





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