Wayne Adams - Ask Me No More Questions, Tell Me No More Lies

I am interested in painting as a lens through which to reconcile my perception of the corporeal world with intangible notions of intense human emotion, experience and meaning. It is an understanding of art as a treatise on human nature—the practice of making art as a means of making one more human. The painting's title, "Ask Me No More Questions, Tell Me No More Lies" is a phrase from a schoolyard rhyme I learned as a child. The lyric often comes to mind when I hear reference to the former military policy, "Don't ask, don't tell." The subsequent associations between the two, like many nursery rhymes, have both innocent and malevolent connotations.