Paul Maheke
Ancestral Muse IV, 2023

Acrylic pencil on aluminum panel
75 x 50 cm
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Paul Maheke explores the act of drawing as a process of emergence. In his 'Ancestral Muse' works, rather than predicting what he will draw, the artist allows the surfaces on which he applies his marks to dictate the images that appear, channeling the faces and bodies of his ancestral muses through the material itself. For the artist, connecting with these muses is a way of tuning in with other realities as well as exploring the tenuous border between the visible and the invisible.

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