Merrick Adams: Wayfinder presents three arched canvases shaped to echo the lancet windows of a chapel or temple, framing each painting as a portal rather than a picture. Built and stripped back across countless layers using techniques drawn from woodcut and silkscreen, the surfaces yield luminous webs of rippling line and color that rise and fall in hypnotic motion. The ocean — vast, unknowable, resistant to containment — serves as both subject and symbol for a contemporary spiritual condition. The title invokes ancient Polynesian wayfinding: crossing open water by reading stars, currents, and memory rather than fixed instruments. Navigation as an act of trust.
