Artist’s Statement
Rylie Paull is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rhode Island. Complex patterning is heavily featured in her works, these detailed compositions exalt both time-wrought and time-worn beauty.
Inspiration is drawn from a number of sources; they usually are or relate to:
solitude
reflection
deep time
systems (natural and technological).
Ink drawings are a current focus.
These were born out of black and white ceramic sculptures.
Which were born of her carved ceramic vessels.
Which were inspired by a variety of sources:
Japanese zen gardens
Ancient spiral patterns
Natural formations
Architecture
Optical Illusions
Rorschach tests
Reflections & patterns in water.
“When viewed in deep time, things come alive that seemed inert. New responsibilities declare themselves. A conviviality of being leaps to mind and eye. The world becomes eerily various and vibrant again. Ice breaths. Rock has tides. Mountains ebb and flow. Stone pulses. We live on a restless Earth.”
— Underland by Robert Macfarlane
“… of all the things which belong to the spiritual world beauty is the one which is most easily seen here below. We can see wisdom only darkly. But we can see beauty quite plainly, whoever we are, and we don’t need to be trained to love it. And because beauty is a spiritual thing it commands worship rather than arousing desire.”
— The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch