"I made my Abigail picture because sometimes i have a severe craving for King Diamond and i was looking at old gravestones from the 18th century and imagined the image. I was mostly thinking of a b-side called Shrine because it is like an epilogue for the Abigail story. In the same sense that the painting on the cover of Abigail is inaccurate, my image is as well. Abigail wouldn't have had a tombstone, that was just a liberty I took for the sake of illustration. "
"Hildegard von Bingen was one of my favorites. A tension between the ethereal and corporeal is a theme I like sometimes. she evokes a lot of things that would make me interested, like pain and sickness and ecstacy. I wanted to depict sickness as a spiritual act. I think that is what someone could make of Hildegard, some people have diagnosed her visions as a symptom of migraines. it's one of my pictures that took a very long time of me thinking about it before I cut the paper. i am not really sure how anyone will react to it because it's a bit more ambiguous and even obtuse."
"I took a photograph of myself with new bangs I had cut and then my friend Amy Kreiger made a very lifelike colored pencil drawing from my photograph. It was later in a show at the Butler Institute of Art and won the foremost prize at that contest and much acclaim. there were a few occasions when I made metaportraits of her portraits, and this one happened to involve me as the subject in the first place."
"Mz Berlin makes pornographic movies, especially sadomasochistic ones. i met her online and wanted to make a picture so I tried to and it ended up looking a bit like a Schiele I think. The elements were all very good for making an austere and quiet portrait. it can be very hard to make a portrait because such elements are not everywhere. It's probably kind of a loaded image to make when I think about it but it wasn't about the act of making the image so it would be hard to comment. Silence doesn't have to be overrated I suppose."
Adam is walking art. I've always loved his art and his mind. The innovative nature he retains has always compelled me. His impressive thought process is inspiring as well as his ability to provoke art out of any idea or medium. I am interested in what's next and it's always unpredictable. -Katie
His Flickr can be seen here: flickr.com/photos/paperkin
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