Gregg Adams
San Carlos, California
Biography
Gregg’s day job is as a Trauma Surgeon. Making art has become a necessary tool to reground and allow creation in a world that can require much emotion and energy. He works in wood and metal to create practical and whimsical artwork, a blend of functional and fanciful.
What started as a rocking cradle for his son 30 years ago has resulted in the perpetual joy of fashioning a wide variety of wooden art, toys, tools and furniture. After the discovery of the Burning Man Project in 2014, his focus has shifted to metal and fire art. He has worked on two pieces with the amazing Flaming Lotus Girls that have been brought to the Playa, and was lead artist on their 2017 Burning Man Honorarium piece, NOETICA.
He has always strived to design pieces that meld form and function, and that explore the interaction between the physics of movement and what the eye perceives.
Artist’s Work
Flaming Lilies
A study for NOETICA by the Flaming Lotus Girls
Zebra wood clocks, Golden Ratio design
Red oak rocking cradle
Cutting boards, various woods
NOETICA by the Flaming Lotus Girls, Burning Man Honorarium piece, 2017
Building a Forest
Gregg’s Tree Concept
The Phi Tree
The Phi Tree will be a steel structure of multiple overlapping pieces creating the trunk and branches, with a canopy of CNC cut steel, creating leaf-like shade and shadow.
Each piece will be shaped and grounded in the Golden Ratio
To celebrate our return to Black Rock City and the continual rebirth of nature, there will be within the tree a small recess, in which a nest of eggs is sheltered, and on the branches a triumphant singing bird.
Phi Tree - Rough sketch
Trees / Artists Dancing
Application of Fibonacci Sequences