AND IN THE ENDLESS SOUNDS THERE CAME A PAUSE
Laminated hand carved wood
H:63 cm W:61 cm D:61 cm
2014
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Born in 1970, Paul Kaptein is a Perth based artist who is currently working with sculpture and watercolour paintings. His work is broadly concerned with the agency of the present moment. This is evidenced in his painstaking and exquisitely hand carved wooden figures and objects. Gaps between the laminated layers of wood are purposefully left, forming contours for emptiness and visual portals for what lays beyond.
(http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/artists/paul_kaptein.php)
Paul’s work, seemingly bent through time and space, taps into this medium of emptiness, responding to the gap between immateriality and materiality – through the energy we call potential. His work is full of the boundless energy of potentiality loops or loops of potentiality or the realisation that potential is the energy that constantly moves and transforms. Potential is the force that grabs ideas and translates them into being – it is a poetic energy of necessity and a necessary energy for poetics.
(http://www.paulkaptein.com/about/)
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Born in 1970, Paul Kaptein is a Perth based artist who is currently working with sculpture and watercolour paintings. His work is broadly concerned with the agency of the present moment. This is evidenced in his painstaking and exquisitely hand carved wooden figures and objects. Gaps between the laminated layers of wood are purposefully left, forming contours for emptiness and visual portals for what lays beyond.
(http://www.turnergalleries.com.au/artists/paul_kaptein.php)
Paul’s work, seemingly bent through time and space, taps into this medium of emptiness, responding to the gap between immateriality and materiality – through the energy we call potential. His work is full of the boundless energy of potentiality loops or loops of potentiality or the realisation that potential is the energy that constantly moves and transforms. Potential is the force that grabs ideas and translates them into being – it is a poetic energy of necessity and a necessary energy for poetics.
(http://www.paulkaptein.com/about/)
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This work demonstrates Texture as an element of design in that one can almost feel the smooth texture of the sculpture - the curves and lines are easily seen.
It demonstrates Balance as a principle of design in that the figure, though asymmetrical, it balances with positive space on one side and negative space on the other.
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We chose this work because it plays into the theme of being out of sync with reality. It showcases that moment when you start to switch, to fade, to change or shift into something that was beginning to infect you, make you see something that you were only slightly aware of - a glitch in your otherwise sane outwardly appearance - and now you cannot go back.
It demonstrates Balance as a principle of design in that the figure, though asymmetrical, it balances with positive space on one side and negative space on the other.
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We chose this work because it plays into the theme of being out of sync with reality. It showcases that moment when you start to switch, to fade, to change or shift into something that was beginning to infect you, make you see something that you were only slightly aware of - a glitch in your otherwise sane outwardly appearance - and now you cannot go back.
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