Adam Thomas Rees: "Find the edge of your boundaries – political, social, artistic, experiential – and step over them"
BPP: Who are
you? And who you really are?
Adam Thomas Rees: I’m a thirty-five
year old sculptor -- a continually changing growing specimen from the animal
kingdom.
BPP: If you could say
something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?
Adam Thomas Rees:To pay attention to
the world around them and that includes listening to ideas and opinions that
challenge what they already believe to be true.
BPP: What is your true dream, the one that keeps
you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and
calmness in your heart?
Adam Thomas Rees: To have enough
financial resources that my time is my own and I can help ease the burdens of
the people I care about.
BPP: How is life
currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and
for the planet at large?
Adam Thomas Rees: People in the United States are divided right now, life is getting a lot harder for most people and it’s easy to look in the wrong place for the answers to our struggles. I wish the same thing for all of earth’s citizens, that we start working together to solve problems instead of looking to place blame and create scapegoats.
BPP: If you had a
chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?
Adam Thomas Rees: I am lucky to have
had a great childhood filled with what kids need most: love, acceptance, and
the freedom to experience life. From the
age of nine to my early twenties I was into motocross, now, I wish I would’ve
spent that time as a dancer. But, these
kinds of wishes are really just a way of wishing that who we are today is who
we were yesterday.
BPP: What was the exact moment that you realized
what you wanted to do with your life?
How did you feel at this very moment?
Adam Thomas Rees: Epiphanies, like
miracles, are rare. Most of life is a
slow growing, a realization that inches up until you find yourself focused on
that one passion, that one direction that takes you to surprising places.
BPP: Would you like
to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?
Adam Thomas Rees: Find the edge of your
boundaries – political, social, artistic, experiential – and step over
them. If you have the opportunity to take
a journey somewhere new, be it intellectually, geographically, artistically,
emotionally, then take the journey because you will come back both you and not
you.
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Galleries
A Gallery 2012 - present
1321 South
2100 east
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
801.583.480
Terzian Galleries 2011 - Present
309 Main Street
PO Box 3359
Park City, UT 84060
435.649.4927
Blackfish Gallery 2007 - Present
112 Morris Street
La Conner, WA 98257
360.399.1042
Awards
Award of Merit, 88th Springville Salon, Springville, UT: Mountain Lion
Shows
2012 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Trout
2012 88th Springville Salon, Springville, Ut: Mountain Lion
2011 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Polar Bear
2009 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Giraffe
2008 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Cat and Wild Horses
2007 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Fish and Heron
2006 Utah Face of Sculpture, West Valley, UT: Cats and Moose
2006 September Gallery Stroll, Featured Artist, Magpies’ Nest, Salt Lake, UT: Frogs and Cats
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