Through A Glass Darkly.

By Paul D Robertson

Pastels

1 metre x 82 cms

sold

I like this piece very much. Sometimes in my work I can witness myself taking leaps of quality, and I believe that this is one of those times.

It is an indescribable sensation to see my own hands make something such as this. I begin the with a person, a woman, before me, some materials - paper, chalk, paint.At the end of the slow still hours quickening my fingers, I surface from the fugue and wake from the trance of working. And sometimes I have something before me that is beautiful that did not exist, that what the world did not hold before I began. And it will last for centuries.I love the idea of obscured reflections and scattered and refracted light - my desire to work is pushed further every time I stumble upon something I know I must pursue.In many of my works, whenever it is practical, I will place a left-hand print on a wall or smudging a piece of glass. I have done this for years, and I will never stop. Recently the idea occurred to me that since this has become one of the defining symbols within my work, I could execute a piece based entire on the idea. So I made it happen. I forced it into existence.

And I am so left handed, you see, that I almost walk with a limp.