Bill Paskewitz :: Inspiring Through Brushstrokes

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The recent watercolors of Bill Paskewitz show a strong contrast of light and shade on foreign forms of architecture. "I paint what I immediatly see when I work my compositions leaving out the details. I let the essence of the first glance challenge my perception. I think about the place, and now the memory of the first glance. The watercolor is a reminder of that experience.

Spontaneity and a inquisitive eye submerge me in a dialogue within the subjects shapes, forms, lines, light and content. The rapport is real. With varying brush pressures and gestures I control transparent puddles of color. I produce a memory of my experience. The images are the efforts made visible from my experiences."

Images that challenge one's perspective interest me. As we look at an object or exist in a landscape our perception shifts and becomes juxtaposed in the process of viewing. We are constantly absorbing selected aspects of our environment interpreting what we see.

Painting represents memory and thought. I exchange visual aesthetics for accuracy in the process of painting. Memory and thought are integrated into my world. There is a sense of interchangeability with the conscious, the unconscious with other animate and inanimate space. Painting provides the surface of translation, altering the viewer by the interaction of its effect.

Past projects used disoriented spatial ambiguity to achieve this goal. The ambiguity in the watercolors comes from experiencing a different culture, while at the same time realizing what is familiar about the surroundings. Ambiguity helps the work transcend itself. I think about the place, and now the memory of it, as I paint. I know that moment is gone forever. I participated in the act of painting. I merged vision and knowledge, my life experiences through the use of visual language. That, too, is now a memory for me. I see the finished painting now that the dialogue is complete, and I am aware that the viewer will absorb another set of meaning to the work.