A. Adams

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PNW 🌲 Portland ✊ Writer 📝 Visual Artist 🎨 #DANCEParty 🪩🎧 2026–Returning to my love of baking and cooking. 🧁 aadams.substack.com ✍️

Image captures a portion of a printed book that is quoted in the post. The book is Nine Miles and other stories by Tom Joad.
Four sushi rolls, sliced, on a plate.
Update WIP, Tool pamplisest Triptych. Upper left is today’s addition, Fear Innoculum. Upper right are Eulogy and Third Eye. Bottom left is the digital art I made during my convalescence of Ganesh, middle is another made during that time, Temple, and bottom right is my 2016 painting titled Madonna and Child, receding. Ten years of art making coalescing into its new forms as reference material for the pamplisests.
Sketch and preplanning of a painting showing with colored pencils. The painting is in the upper right hand of the picture.
Triptych of process trial boards of a painting series I am beginning for 2026. Left painting shows various levels of revealed lines, middle painting shows partial reveal of portrait and right painting shows partial reveals of bridge spans.
Corner of a kitchen counter and cabinets showing a stocked spice selection.
Image shows two DIY patches of potholes in an alley in Ladd’s Addition. The right side patch reads, “Curiosity is what separates the truly alive.” The left patch is signed, “The Pothole Bandit”. In the right hand corner is a blue merle mixed dog. In the center is a strong shadow of the photographer.
Burger buns and sandwich rolls freshly baked, cooling on a rack.
Buns, proofing for baking, on parchment lined trays, draped in cling wrap.
Snapshot of Original New York Times article published April 12th. Headline reads “The Election in Hungary Signals Trouble for Conservatism”
Bubbling hot enchiladas cooling onna stove top.
Chicken and Pepperjack cheese enchiladas covered with green enchilada sauce, cheddar cheese and green olives, ready for the oven.
Tree branches against a blue sky.
Screenshot of Ava, an AI informed robot, kneeling in a concrete and glass room, setting down a piece of paper. From the movie Ex Machina.
Stacks of green bins tower against a wall, moving boxes to the left of them. An exhausted dog amidst the chaos of moving.