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12 JAVA MAGAZINE By Jenna Duncan
The representational work in a new exhibit of paintings and installations by artist and muralist Amanda Adkins tells a very personal story about living with chronic pain and the debilitating, incurable disease endometriosis. But it is also a story of connecting with community and living with hope for recovery. Adkins has been experimenting with painting on wood. This was something she tried in her previous series, but the subject matter wasn’t as personal. She prefers wood to canvas for its grain and feel. “When I began this series two years ago, I purchased a bunch of panels and decided that I was going to make it all on wood. I like that wood has a little more resistance and makes things a little more technical,” she says. “I wanted a challenge, and I wanted something new.” She started this series shortly before her third endometriosis surgery. She began by painting a crow standing on three red pomegranates. One of the stylistic elements in her paintings is the depiction of animals. For this new series, she sought out the right creatures from the wild to help convey what she was living through physically. Though Adkins has lived with endometriosis and its awful effects for decades, she wasn’t very public about it, nor did she often address it in her paintings. Not until a couple of years ago, when her illness took a bad turn. “I had read this article about a scientist who did some research on how crows communicate. He went into an animal park wearing a mask and carrying a dead crow,” she says. “All the crows reacted immediately.” When other crows saw the masked stranger, they reacted violently, plunging toward him, trying to attack. The crows also chattered loudly among themselves. She says the scientist then returned to the same murder of crows a few days later wearing JAVA 13 MAGAZINE
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