“Going back to the mountains, I felt a lot of homeward callings. I felt like this is the place where I belong. And with those homeward callings it made me want to start building places to rest, places to be comfortable in. So I started making sculptural benches.”

Walls’ imagination — fueled by comics, cartoons and fantasy — inspired his early craftsmanship. That combination, enriched with familial relationships and self-awareness, has led him to an award-filled career as a sculptor.

“Similar to how things can happen in communities. An older community might become revitalized by something coming from within - maybe its new people, maybe its new ideas - but changes in the community can cause new growth.”

“I was never making things at that time, that were meant to be popular. I was making things like, “I want this” “I want to make a big toy I can fit inside”. As a kid I collected toys and still had them.”

“Putting art in the public realm allows people to engage; people who might not normally get the chance to do that. The aspect of bringing color and interesting shapes into people’s lives, in areas where you might not expect it is gratifying.”

Adam Walls’s intimate engagement with steel links the divergent forms of his work. His sculptural output moves back and forth along a fairly broad spectrum of possibilities.