Marina Adams: Cosmic Repair

To comprehend the nine paintings in Marina Adams’s show, we ought to consider crystal formation and flower blooming. One involves chemistry, the other botany, but both can only take place when certain conditions prevail, conditions beyond human intention, devoid of consciousness. And both engender objects of geometric precision and symmetry. Entelechy, the seemingly automatic flow of events that leads, inevitably, to the crystal or the flower lurks within Adams’s work.