Ottawa, December 26, 2024

Animating spirit

February 22, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“… worry less about what you make — that will mostly look after itself, and is to some extent beyond your control, and perhaps even […]

Ottawa, December 14, 2024

Winter trees

February 18, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“Our need for beauty is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical […]

Ottawa, November 2, 2024

Window distortions

February 17, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“Look at everything. Don’t close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.” — […]

Ottawa, November 24, 2024

Broken arrow

February 17, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.” ―Robert Motherwell

Ottawa, October 16, 2024

Still life

February 16, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“One’s art is just one’s effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.” ―Robert Motherwell

Ottawa, September 26, 2024

Bent tree

February 16, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“Our humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. […]

Montreal, November 8, 2024

Vehicles

February 15, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“The thing to do is for each individual to wake up, to discover himself as a human being, with needs of his own. To look […]

Montreal, November 6, 2024

Animal nature

January 12, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“All this points to a kind of imperative, minimally expressed as: Do something. Better expressed, it says: Create something. To do otherwise is simply to […]

Ottawa, November 23, 2024

The animals

January 8, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“I think it’s a stupid term, “street photography.” I don’t think it tells you anything about the photographer or work. On the subject, I have […]

Montreal, November 6, 2024

Go on anyway

January 1, 2025 Paul Politis 0

“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. […]

Ottawa, October 20, 2024

Dreamer

December 18, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to […]

Ottawa, October 16, 2024

In the frame

December 15, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I […]

Ottawa, October 17, 2024

A portrait

December 11, 2024 Paul Politis 0

“I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had […]