Here is my show, “Cloudy Characters”. It references communication, lettering, vintage signage, and the confusion of shifting contexts. The large sculptures are based on small ink drawings done on typing paper and scaled up. There’s a lot of tmi in this information age we live in, and it’s getting less and less clear what’s going on. I’m just making a lot of art in my studio over at galvanized garden. Clarity is in short supply these days but we can keep busy and keep creative, because maybe something will evolve. I’m working on a publication project called the “manilalogue”. I’m unsure of what I’m doing. A friend of mine recently said, “I don’t know what I’m doing”, and that resonated with me. Maybe it’s less important to know WHAT we are doing than to know THAT we are doing. I’m a believer in process over product. If we prioritize the product over the process, we will be seduced by an artificially intelligent genie. Not trying to go off topic too much here… But if my writing were second rate, that would be evidence that it was written by me, and not a robot. I got a call from a telemarketer, and when I asked if she were a robot, she tells me what the weather is like. And then “she” says that it proves she isn’t a robot, since robots don’t talk about the weather. Which proves that robots do talk about the weather. Man, these are some Cloudy Characters.

-Adam Farrington