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    Screaming hole, Adam Bird, 2022, video 1:50 minutes

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    Kitchen sink, Adam Bird, 2022, film, 1:30 minutes

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    Sand hill, Adam Bird, 2022, video, 3:01 minutes

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    Oculus, Adam Bird, 2021, film 3:24

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    Embroidery, Adam Bird, 2020, film, 1:28 minutes

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  6. Adam Bird – BA/BFA

Adam Bird – BA/BFA

Based South London

In the absence of a better word, phenomena describes my perception over time or in the blink of an eye arising from the exploration of materials. The experience of phenomena sparks a response I am compelled to recreate.

In this pursuit, I experiment with plaster, devices, water, fabric, or anything that simulates it or gives expression to metaphysical composition. Aware of my perception, I control levels of light; in focusing, it becomes my abstracted feelings.

I seek to translate this data, imitating and recording it on the camera’s retina as if it were my own.
Out of this exploration, I create an unfamiliar impression of reality. Feelings of detachment have been a theme: a lone rock; a particle of light; a blob of paint in a dark expanse or changing landscape. What is isolated returns to primordial ooze at the beginning of the universe, waiting for a reaction.