Materiali misti

When Paul combines materials he tends toward collisions rather than blends. Peperino against rusted iron. Wood with a fragment of pink Portuguese marble and a piece of roof tile. Tufo paired with brick. Each combination is a small argument about weight, surface, and history.

Many of these works are totems — vertical assemblies that stack one material on another, often with iron rods running through them like spinal columns. The mixed-media pieces are also where Paul most often introduces colour: a stripe of red acrylic, a ground of black resin, the cool grey of marble against the warm grey of stone.

These are the most narrative of his sculptures — each one a small encounter staged between substances that don't usually meet.