Drawings

While the hands could no longer lift stone or push papier-mâché, they could still move across a screen. In the spring of 2016, Paul began drawing on an iPad — quickly, without ceremony, often more than one in a single day.

These are not studies for sculptures. They are a thing of their own: colour fields, held shapes, gestural lines. Yellow wedges, red frames, tangles of blue. Sometimes the drawings echo the reliefs — an oval held inside a square — and sometimes they let go entirely, becoming pure colour and rhythm.

We present them here in chronological order, from the first of 16 April to the last of 13 September. They are the tail of the work, and in their lightness they say something honest about how he kept looking.