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This site represents a 30 year survey of work beginning with Greece which inspired the Rhodes series.
The island of Rhodes, Greece provided a catharsis and revelation that inspired the Rhodes Series: an affirmation of the celebration of life and death, and form and content. This series motivated three more - Garden of ... Delights, Findlay, and Traveler - all being a voyage of sorts. The Paradox Series introduced a formal visual journey based on paradox as a metaphor. Form and content are built here on movement of contradiction and enigma rather than movement from one place or event to another - a conceptual narrative instead of a traditional painted narrative or gathering of information. It is my wish that this series remain an ongoing series that satisfies intellectual curiosity and provides mystery and humor.
The latest sequences in the Paradox series are Hydra, which comes back full circle to Greece and environs, and Events, a continuous set of episodes. The latest works, Images and Poems, From Irony to Laughter. I wish to thank the New York Foundation for the Arts for their continued sponsorship.
Paul Vazquez
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