ryan adams + line-making.

i dig ryan adams.

not only because he is a ridiculously talented musician, who writes particularly honest love songs: with the rawness, ugliness + beauty that love encompasses. but also because he uses his creativity - in this case, visual art - to benefit important local humanitarian issues.

last year, adams was artist in residence at the morrison hotel gallery's bowery space in new york. i am not going to laud his collection; i am not an art critic. some i really liked. others i was not so excited by.

the works in his debut show were auctioned, and all proceeds went to the housing works: bookstore cafe, which is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to providing services for homeless persons living with hiv + aids in nyc + beyond.

and, well, this makes ryan adams just that little bit more fabulous.