Artist Statement
1. My understanding of the landscape has been heavily influenced by mythology, particularly stories created to explain curious natural phenomena. Norse myths and Coyote tales are both full of origin stories for various animals and land formations. I look for a similar narrative potential in my subjects and, in a way, I think of these images as the raw material of myths.

2. The title These Small Infinities comes from a line I wrote years ago when I was trying to describe subtlety and I expressed it as "the infinity between decimal points." (The idea that there are an infinite numbers between 0.1 and 0.11.) I love the idea that there's a whole universe housed in each of these tiny pieces of our world.

3. I think of my images as signs that won’t quite resolve, as perfectly factual representations presented without enough information for a particular meaning to fully settle.

 

 

Adam Thorman is a photographer based out of Oakland, CA. He received his BFA in Photography from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 2003 and his MFA from Arizona State University in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, IN and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. His work is in the permanent collection of SFMOMA. He has taught at Prescott College in Arizona, Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division, workshops at Kala Art Institute and he is currently teaching photography at The Athenian School in Danville, CA and the Berkeley Art Studio at UC Berkeley.

Adam is also one half of Loop Arts, a new arts organization in Oakland, CA. Loop Arts received an Alternative Exposure grant in 2011 and administers a grant for artists to print for scheduled exhibitions for free.