Adam Blaustein Rejto paints lyrical and narrative dreams that weave personal and familial memories with reimagined and reconstructed scenes. Their paintings aspire to heal their own and their family’s grief-related traumas through loving attention. Blaustein Rejto depicts their pain and heartbreak while expressing how it is also the origin of their joy and pleasure. A formally trained chemist, and now paint-maker and pigment forager, Blaustein Rejto operates Catskill Paints, producing, researching, and merchandising foraged pigments and oil paints.