The Seam Atlas

A map of 186 posts: six pillars, thirty-three themes, twelve recurring motifs and a private lexicon — the shape of what Richard F Adams actually writes about.

Four years of writing sorts into six pillars. They are not equal and they are not separate: the day job and the art school keep making the same argument in different rooms, and the 1978 pit village is underneath all of it. Click any theme to read its posts.

Six pillars, thirty-three themes

Output by month, coloured by pillar

Twelve recurring motifs

Motifs are images rather than subjects — the things that turn up inside posts about something else entirely. The count is the number of posts that actually deploy the image, not the number that touch the topic.