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Adam Ray Adkins is a multi-media artist based in Florida. Their work has appeared in several issues of Locust Review.

Catch up loser, I made a playlist for the sacrifice!

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

2020 mixed media on canvas. Inspired by chapter two of Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkimer and Adorno for the Beyond Linguistics Reading Group. See the discussion and more original artworks inspired by the text on the Theorywave Nights YouTube channel.

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Reason Has Its Limits

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Simpler Times

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Artwork by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #3.

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We Build the Kingdom

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Inside Every Horse Is Two Women

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Adam Ray Adkins. Art appeared in Locust #3.

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A Brain Between the Three of Them

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #3.

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What Sustains Us?

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Terraforming the Desert of the Real

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

2020. Mixed Media on paper 24×18 in. Appeared in Locust #3.

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Nostalgia Anxiety

Adam Ray Adkins December 10, 2020

Art by Adam Ray Adkins. Appeared in Locust #2.

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Edward Bond died on March 3 a cumbersome cultural figure. Always controversial, but celebrated in the 1960s and 70s, no major British stage has taken on a new work from him in decades. He died as Israel inched into its fifth month of its massacre in Gaza. And he died at a time when theatre matters less than it has at probably any point in human history. 

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