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E scape Paul McCloskey

Land

The Omega (Awakenings 3D Violet 2) - oil on board

an interview with
emerging landscape, almost as if witnessing its
creation, its birth, its expansion and ultimate con-
traction, from the beginning to the end, the alpha
and omega, representing for me the internal
struggle, between the conditioned and the divi-
ne/spiritual self.
http://paulmccloskeyart.com/3d.html

A feature of your works that has mostly impac-
ted on me is the deep involvement that you have Awakening Reloaded blue and gold – oil on canvas
been capable of establishing with the viewer: I
really think that your Art encourages us to find
and feel beauty... I'm sort of convinced that
some information & ideas are hidden, or even reminders or signs point in the direction of this
"encrypted" in the environment we live in, so truth and that is where the deep involvement
we need -in a way- to decipher them. Maybe that comes from, a recognition of truth from both the
one of the roles of an artist could be to reveal artist and the viewer, the creator and the
unexpected sides of Nature, especially of our observer, the dance and the dancer, then become
inner Nature... what's your point about this?
one. But this circle can only be complete when
Absolutely I agree the role of the artist is to remind the viewer is open to seeing/feeling.
us, perhaps to present with fresh eyes what we
already knew but have forgotten. Indeed the key Indeed the artist must also take this responsibility
word here is ‘feel’ using a subject such as landscape to observe the work outside of himself, as once
as the catalyst for the initial transaction between the work is completed the artist must relinquish
onlooker and the work, but they are only reminders that connection and also become a witness to it.
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that all is one and from the same source, these As you have remarked in your artist's state-

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