Artist Statement
Writer and singer-songwriter Ellen Orme Adams is particularly interested in the unexpected doorways between kinship and estrangement. Her creative practice draws on extensive interviews, visual arts, language learning, monastic experience, and movement. She really loves to read. Orme Adams is currently revising a novel. In it, a chaotic, closeted lesbian arrives to a Buddhist nunnery in search of escape. When conflicts and secrets emerge, the nunnery's women must confront troubling histories of misconduct, control, and addiction—and the latent potential in each of us to reclaim our dignity.
Ellen Orme Adams_Novel Outline in the Studio