Codes of Vulnerability an interview with Paul P
by Robert Enright
introduction by Meeka Walsh
[…] From 2010, an oil painting on canvas, 41 x 27 centimetres. An ecstasy, adrift, what I read as a sole journey. The green fairy wraps her wings around the shoulders of a young man. His face is pale, coloured lightly by the chartreuse blush. His eyes are closed, his head is tilted and angled slightly forward, resting against the drift of sleep, or an unearthly elsewhere, or drugs, or pleasure. His mouth has fallen open in peaceful sleep, maybe childlike trust. It could be a soft prayer—please lift me. The portion of the painting around the “gure’s head and shoulders is the wash of colour a “re throws on a facing wall—orange with pink and mauve, some grey, and in places, more heat. Against the wash is the “gure’s almost sooty black hair, falling over his forehead, against his cheek, cupping his neck and, at the crown, lifting as though drawn into the updraft of the “ery ground against which his head seems to rest. Soot, pale skin, the peach and red glow, the downy green wings, a bit of the heat smudged around his open mouth, and only the smallest dust of pale green on his cheek. It is an ecstatic reverie, a gift of state and tone. To look at it is to enter brie!y into that very private place.
Others of Paul P’s works allude to this lifting off, not a removal from the present but, instead, a perfect containment. The works are all Untitled so we rely on dates, dimensions and media for identi!cation, and above all on how the pieces look. […]
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