We work on the world coming to be (2022) Painting by Kate Paul

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I used to like to draw with chalk on the pavement. Then people would pass by, some looking at the sketches, then erasing the pictures and letters with their feet. Eventually the rain would wash it all away. And I would appear again with my chalk. During holidays, at the seaside, I used to draw signs on the sand with a stick or my finger. The best was[...]
I used to like to draw with chalk on the pavement. Then people would pass by, some looking at the sketches, then erasing the pictures and letters with their feet. Eventually the rain would wash it all away. And I would appear again with my chalk. During holidays, at the seaside, I used to draw signs on the sand with a stick or my finger. The best was the wet one, right on the water's edge. But risky at the same time. A bigger wave would come and... there was no trace of my creativity anymore. So again – do you understand that I had to do it again? Now I have a canvas – someone buys it, so I can cover the next one with signs. And it leaves me too. But I have a stubbornness, and keep sending signals out into the world. Maybe we will finally communicate with each other? And you, too, be persistent.

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Kate Paul is a Wroclaw-based artist. She was born in 1988 in Wroclaw, Poland. She holds a master’s degree in painting and drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Throughout her career, she has also[...]

Kate Paul is a Wroclaw-based artist. She was born in 1988 in Wroclaw, Poland. She holds a master’s degree in painting and drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Throughout her career, she has also studied ceramics to expand her horizons and discover new possibilities as an artist. During her art studies, Kate wanted to invent something different and rarely followed the rules. She never tried to be “an academic painter. She started painting full-time in 2018, after working as a graphic and ceramic designer as well as a bass player and singer. 


"What calligraphy means to me?

I see it as a labyrinth. I follow a path of symbols so as not to lose my way. A bright line on a dark background is my Ariadne’s thread. Where do I want to get to? To a mystery. The letters and digits I use aren’t always fully comprehensible, not even to me. Where do they come from? From the past. I study the writing in old documents and ornaments in ancient ruins, shapes of rundown furniture and destroyed tools. I feel that their look constitutes a cypher that connects yesterday with today. I do not use calligraphy for its beauty, as some other painters do, nor do I use it in order to experiment with form. Japanese, Latin or Arabic characters – even a digital inscription on a computer – they all hold meaning. They say something about the world which created them. Do they say something about the people, too? Oh yes, they do! With a stroke of a hand holding a brush I get to know these people, their love and hate, desires and fears – their fate. The inscriptions in my paintings tell their stories."

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