Adrian Firth

My work explores how invisible systems shape what we see and believe to be real.

From economies of value to the physics of matter, I’m interested in the networks that connect us, social, atomic, and cosmic.

Early pieces such as the penny portraits examined how worth and identity are defined by material and exchange. Later works move from currency to energy, breaking images apart into particulate forms that mirror how reality itself fragments at the smallest scale.

Across all of it runs one idea: that everything is connected through forces, particles, and perception, and that what we experience as solid is only a thin, shifting film over something infinite.