Paul B. Deery

“The drawings are made from writing,” he says. “I write about cultural issues, political issues, societal issues, personal issues, memories, hopes, etc. And all are presented through a polarized visual message, but with a blurring, so that what may be a black and white issue becomes gray.”

 

 

“This selection of work continues a series I visit from time to time,” Deery says. “Years ago I worked with knots, painting them, drawing them, sculpting with them, etc. Knots as metaphor for the persistent doing and undoing of our human experience.

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“I started working with language and writing as a means to create these works. The lines of writing were manipulated into knotted forms. Slowly the knotted lines were reduced to a bundle created by just the writing itself. And I started using the knotted writing as the metaphor and content to further express that persistent doing and undoing, of our human experience.”

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Excerpt for The Morning Call By Tim Higgins