In the spring of 2020 as he watched his country tested Robert Adams discovered in his garage
a small plank of wood that contained a landscape. This led to the creation during a difficult
time of an unexpected series of works that drew upon memories of a stillness and a grandeur he
had forgotten about. Over the next few months using scrap wood from an old bookcase hand
tools that once belonged to his father and grandfather and block printing ink Adams affirmed
his own basis for hope in the 23 scenes that appear in this book.
