Meet Sophie Adams

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Sophie Adams a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Sophie, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

Confidence is not a constant; I would like to express my gratitude for those who wholeheartedly and unconditionally support my creative endeavors, and pull me from the inevitable self-doubt spirals that accompany a creative lifestyle in a capitalist society.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

My pieces reflect my own curiosity, to spark questions about the world we live in; scientifically, morally, and energetically. I best tap into my creative well when I submerge myself inside the living, breathing earth. I feed off the wonder of how the gas composition and temperature aligned just perfectly, down to the millionth, to form such a beautiful world in which I’m existing, interacting, observing, retaining, and critically receiving. As I peel back the layers of projected reality, I solder connections and discover mediums, new and familiar, that become my vessel of expression in intervals, providing me with a necessary variety to enable the flow of the excavation of the mind. Of this exchange, I frequently write, embroider, paint, control electronics, work with fabric, improvisationally create music, and visualize in images. I have more to learn every day, and the prospect of infinite knowledge waiting for me in a tree, a bird, and the glittering balls of gas above us, thrills me. My purpose, my hope, is to serve as a bridge, to express my learnings through images, words, and sounds, subsequently providing a potential path to gratitude, beauty, and peace for those with whom my work speaks.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I’ve found that striking a balance between sustainable survival and the vulnerability that it takes to authentically create in a capitalistic society is an ever-mobile target. Learning how much to offer up to the confines of the monetary quantification of your most vulnerable self takes trial, error, and patience, while taking the leap into self-directed inconsistent financial compensation can, at first, feel like the ground is dropping out from under you. Over time, I have learned that it is essential to self-preservation to anchor in an unconditional community, and, in parallel, to keep a portion of creativity set aside solely for private enjoyment. I have also learned that it is imperative to advocate for your worth, for the financial compensation that supports you to create the great work you are capable of, and to remember that you, and your work, are larger than one gig, one job, one success, one rejection. Your story is a culmination of the whole; the weight does not need to fall so heavily upon each individual opportunity – you will lose sight of your path if you focus merely on the ground directly below you. As a wise woman once told me, a rejection is merely a redirection; not the end of your path, but a new exit paved before you.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

“Seduction of the Minotaur” by Anaïs Nin has provided me with a validation of the style of work, of writing, of reflective space, I aspire to offer other like-minded artists and creators. As Wayne McEvilly puts it in his afterward of the continuous novel: “Her metaphysic reveals a particular point of departure, a place from which the voice of this extraordinary woman and novelist speaks to us in such a way as to invite our reflection…[as] though Nin’s success as an artist were proven by the effect her work has on the psyche.” Nin’s presence as a fiercely autonomous femme artist inspires me, and the path she has cleared encourages me; a promise that the reception I hope to achieve is within reach, as it was for her a century earlier.

Contact Info:

• Website: Portfolio: sophieadams.space & Photography: sophieadams.photos
• Instagram: Art Instagram: @starandstitch.co & Photography Instagram: @sophieadams.photos
• Other: Art Commission Inquiries: [email protected]
  Photo Inquiries: [email protected]

Image Credits

Jake Rutstein, Troy Wade, Nick Conant