For those unfortunate souls unfamiliar with the AS220 Flat Files, allow me to illuminate: within the Project Space gallery on Mathewson Street lies a slender set of drawers filled with two dimensional creations of featured Rhode Island artists which may be perused at any time. Work in the Flat Files is refreshed frequently, and can be viewed real-live during gallery hours or with holodeck-like 24 hour convenience in our online shop. By way of whetting your paper-art appetite, Flat File artist Seamus Hames describes in maniacal doodles his art-making process, the endlessness of time, and his place in the cosmos. For the key to obsessive meticulousness as a road to transcendental serenity, read on!

Q. Your work is extremely intricate, and evidences a meticulous process. Can you elaborate on the nature of your line-work? Is the process enjoyable or tedious for you? What is the role/effect of the lack of reproducibility of the work?

Q. You talk about retaining a youthful sense of wonder in your work. Do any moments, stories, or feelings from you childhood inform your work?

Q. You also discuss the vastness of the universe and your place in it, a theme that is clearly visible in your art. In art making, do you find a sense of connectedness to something larger than yourself, or is it a means of looking inward, solitary?

Q. In what ways has working at the Top Drawer Art Center informed your personal art?

Q. How does your environment and proximity to nature affect your art making?