Ted A. Adams

I’ve always considered myself a writer: from kindergarten, when I penned my first book, The Book of Planes, which chronicled a series of planes with increasing numbers of wings past the traditional bi-planes to septi-planes (for which I did not quite have the word) to an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.  My post-graduate writing has focused on children’s picture books. Bindu, the story of a Most Enterprising Dot, debuting at West Medford Open Studios, is my first fully illustrated work. It is the story of an immigrant dot and her struggle to feel at ease in a new culture.

It is only relatively recently that I have added photography as a creative outlet, although my interest in photography is not entirely new.  As a child, I was influenced by a physics graduate student at our church, who after services would share his pictures which he carried around in a crumpled paper bag.  It was a sloppy haphazard exhibition with none of the pretense of the precious.  His interest was obscuring the identity of the mundane by photographing objects at creative angles or unusual perspectives.  It was a guessing game for the viewer and a lesson in perception.  There was no correlation between the ability to see what he saw and the age of the participants.  It was an engaging and democratic event.

Those lessons of perception and perspective continue with me in my photography and writing.  Many of the photos on exhibit reflect that view, a different perspective of the mundane.  There are others, however, in which the view has but one perspective and the grandeur alone draws you in.

To plug into more of my creative outlet visit: http://www.tedadams.com