The other thing they say about me is that I'm probably an obsessive compulsive. I don't know that I can disagree. As a kid I always colored inside the lines. Never going beyond the lines, over it, or banging into it...just touching up against it softly and neatly. I worried my mother when I would colour an entire page with one singular marker stroke made up of perfectly parallel lines. I'd sit at the kitchen table writing meaningless paragraphs over and over until every line, every letter, matched in height, width, and form.

Now people say my condition, my compulsion towards simplicity and perfection serves me well. The lines you see in my paintings are not masked. They are all done free-hand, painstakingly and lovingly. I do not use an airbrush nor any type of masking technique, instead choosing brushes and meticulous hand edging techniques.

Technically, I'm old-fashioned European. Formally, up-to-the-minute. It's all there- smoldering beneath the surface, a slow steady burn: the desire to know what two colors side-by-side and other combinations of visual elements look like, the desire to create quality that will sustain beyond the immediate, the desire to manufacture a pure experience, the desire to touch perfection.

I paint because I am obsessed with the idea of simplifying.

-dee adams