Daffodils

Repair is a painting series centered on healing after fragmentation. The work explores how life experiences are absorbed and integrated over time into a ones existence, becoming part of who we are and how we move through the world. Rather than polishing out the difficult moments or smoothing over what feels unresolved, the series honors these parts as existing alongside moments of beauty and ease. In this way, repair is understood as honoring the full picture rather than editing it down. The paintings begin as abstract floral forms built from layered color and texture, with an ethereal, atmospheric quality. During the process, when Adams reaches a point where a section no longer feels right, she resists the impulse to overwork or control the surface. Instead, she adds new layers on top with large swaths of paint or paper applied directly onto the surface, acting as bandages embedded into the work. At times, these paper elements carry her own writing and reflections from the period in which the painting was made. Across the series, these acts of repair remain visible and become integral to the composition.

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