For Your Valentine...

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Paul Hayes

I recently stumbled upon the work of San Francisco based artist Paul Hayes. Paul doesn't work exclusively with paper but his paper installations are downright impressive.

With Paperwork 1&2, he has created vast fields of suspended paper sheets, carefully folded to catch an array of coloured lights. The result is a turbulent mass of shape and colour that surrounds the viewer like an explosion.

Infact his work got me thinking more about the crucial role of lighting in sculpture and the versatility of the humble sheet of paper. Through the simple act of folding one can create a series of light-reflecting planes that can be illuminated in an almost infinite number of ways.

Update: Paul Hayes has been good enough to provide us with a bit more detail on his works.

Often I'm asked to talk about what I'm doing and here is sort of the "artspeak" version:

"Part of what I'm doing is bringing a sterilized, processed, manmade product and returning it to the kind of arrangement that occurs naturally in biology, because these arrangements are often the most beautiful ones to me. Lately I've been incorporating the suggestion of currents moving through the installation indicating force, motion and direction."

I've read paper forest before, and I'm honored to be
featured, so thanks!

Paul will be creating an installation for a show at Johanssen
Projects gallery on March 20th. He can be contacted directly here.

Thanks Paul!

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