Walking on Diamonds
Inspired by the lozenge compositions of Piet Mondrian, I’ve found the diamond shape to be a dynamic way to see and compose the world in […]
Articles by Paul Politis
Daydreaming
Here’s a sequence of 20 colour urban and street photographs that I’ve put together in a small book entitled “Daydreaming“.
Abstractions
Here are some quotes from the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian accompanied by a few of my black and white photos. I’m aware that it is […]
Against the Sky
I made a bunch of photos last year that I grouped together and called Skyward which was me having fun with playing around with the […]
Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
Birds on a rooftop
“Complete isolation — that is what the Outsider is driving at. He knows that, if he could only achieve it, there is a completely different […]
Out of nothing
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
Familiarity breeds
One thing, of course, about wandering the same areas repeatedly is that one has the opportunity to see how things look at different times of […]
Reflections on a puddle
I turned the corner into a dim alley and this scene lay at my feet. Like a portal, or a corpse.
Unfulfilled
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]