There is a sort of emotional-arctic-freeze that blows into your heart. This "coldness" is very much present, you feel it in your body... the freeze moves in silence as it inhabits and then kills the warmth that it finds. It permeates to the depths, to the core... to the root... it comes from the deep, from below, from the underground. It has no gaps, no holes... it is all encompassing... it blows and it moves... it spreads and it affects.. there is no escape. It moves through your head, it freezes your bones... it lets no one in yet, it encompasses everything.

This emotional freeze is at the core of Adam Jeppesen's work and it is a bit relentless.

With a minimalistic vision and a driven and quiet calculation, Adam Jeppesen speaks of this arctic-tundra-frozen-emotion and he talks with his silence and with his quiet isolation. The silence and stillness are deafening, roaring... and the freeze is "felt". This brand of isolation is palpable. The vibes and undertones through this work are of magnitude yet certainly they also contain the delicacy and the complexity of a snowflake that is viewed up close. The work is unified, ambiguous and totally connected, yet the locations are varied, unique and globally dispersed. There are connecting universal truths that are present and woven through this work but they run deep, under the surface and can't be simply relegated to the aesthetic, to the surface components, to the subject. Of course we can see cinematic like themes that are contained within the aesthetic and the subject matter... the darkness, the night, the ice, the towering trees, the footprints... the snow... but the thread of cohesion runs deeper, it runs at the emotion level and it is a complex dance, it resides at a complex layer... a layer which is the author of the work himself. Yes, the underpinnings, the connections are indeed Adam himself... certainly this is the case. What that means matters not... I don't care about what drives Adam or what provides this complex connection, what creates his personal urges... it is only important to acknowledge this and to call it like it is.

This work ("Wake" is the title of the book), like many others featured previously on this site, is defined by it lack of easy categorization and by it's emotionally charged and complex underpinning. This is a theme that I will try to carry forward here with some sort of discipline... to identify the work of those that step outside the category box and that provide something tangible and unique - something complex and charged. Something that comes from within, from inside and and serves as a blanket of connection... a spider web of identity (not style) that leaks through the work.

To have an awakened core that provides the drive, that drives itself, to have an urge that provides connection, an urge that provides direction.... this is what makes for good work. This is the key... this is the magic pond from where dark things bubble up... this is from where the moving things are unlocked.

Adam has this certain core, we see it and so we know that it is there...