Paul is interested in paper of all kinds, ink, watercolor, gouache, tape, sewing, plastic, art history, anatomy, physiology, bodily processes, mythology, religion and religious art, still life, toys, found objects, drawing, sculpture, botany and plants.  His work as an artist centers on imagining and documenting situations where two or more of these interests collide.

Despite separation of geography and time, images are constantly repeated and connected.  His work consists of juxtapositions of imagery across the spectrum of time and space. It is common in his work to find drawings of old sculpture next to advertising images, anatomical diagrams, photographs from newspapers and drawings of toys.  Paul’s materials, while carefully chosen, also reflect the saturation of images that surrounds all of us.  He is interested in cultural hybridization and its various manifestations.

Paul is fascinated by books and their structure, and as an urban nomad, he uses journals and sketchbooks to document the richness of the life surrounding him in the infinite metropolis.

His work as an artist centers on paper.  Paper is the material that made literacy possible.  Paper is incredibly intimate and organic.  The artist makes paintings that incorporate sewn and glued papers of varying qualities, from packaging of everyday objects to handmade specialty papers.  Recently, Paul has begun to incorporate plastic and fabric into his work.  Often his paintings recall the structure of books, specifically the Meso-American screen fold codex and the South Asian palm leaf manuscript.  In addition, part of his vision as an artist is accomplished through the creation of elaborate journals.  All of his work contains some sort of a narrative structure and incorporates text, either as a vehicle of meaning or simply as an element of visual interest.

Books inform his creative process to a great degree.  Paul is fascinated by the forms that books take, such as scrolls, Meso-American screen fold codices, Asian accordion books and South Asian palm leaf manuscripts.  He finds those book forms particularly resonant in their non linear depiction of time, of the sense that the events depicted are all happening simultaneously with no separation between past, present and future.  He makes paintings and installations that reflect those forms.  He also makes artists books and keeps elaborate journals.

Paul's interest in Asia as a source of ideas exists primarily in his admiration for the forms of visual art as reflections of cultural view points.  Additionally, he is including images of three different types of work which reflect his formal and content interests.  These are installations of deconstructed books, paintings based on books and imagery from journals.  Paul is currently working on a screen fold book that will bring journal work into a more cohesive form.

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