Adam posnak biography

Adam Posnak, ARKANSAS
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My fascination with pottery is rooted in a non-Cartesian belief in the power and
agency of objects. Objects have the ability to transcend the intent of both maker and user, and handmade pottery is a quintessential form with which to capitalize on this potential.
The border between objects and symbols is porous, if not non-existent, and I search high and low for living systems which investigate and illuminate the object/symbol coefficient.

I utilize participant-observation in research and favor experience over objectification, as advocated by the term “Primalism,” coined by art historian Robert Farris Thompson: “…primalism lets us measure just how far we've traveled -- how far we've been pulled forward -- from the devouring primitivism of the past.” Robert Farris Thompson, Art in America, July 1997.

I have investigated belief systems as varied as Freemasonry, Western Esotericism and Aghori Hinduism, only to name a few, and have been p