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Paul Michael Graves' subconscious expression in art

Listen to Paul Michael Graves describe his discovery of zen and how his past finds subconscious expression in art. He discusses how his subconscious externalizes a background in architecture, math, and helicopters in his art. His various talents find expression in art and the zen ritual of painting. For his upcoming solo exhibition in New York, artist Paul Michael Graves sat down with Yehuda Safran to discuss his work, how Japanese zen brushstrokes and calligraphy combine with oil painting. Technobabble Blue consists over thirty recent paintings where Graves explores his signature linework. With zen-like patience, each painting was completed in one sitting. His brushstrokes connect into patterns. Each shape combines into grids that grows into a complex figure. “Diagrams are my soup can,” says Graves, “I take all those brushstrokes, all that beautiful geometry and strip it down into pure abstraction.” The moniker Technobabble succinctly encapsulates Graves’ work; the technological made abstract. For a polymath such as Graves, painting is a zen meditation on line, shape, pattern and color; drawing from his multifaceted background. In his new series, Technobabble Blue, half of the paintings show indigo figures emerging from clouds of light blue. The other half explores the inverse; glowing shapes fading into a field of deep ethereal blues. For this series, Graves works alla prima, allowing the brushstrokes to blend with the wet background, varying hues of indigo, and creating profound depth. Side by side, these two halves explore the polarities of light and dark, day and night, ego and shadow, suggesting the complete technological saturation of the human psyche. His patterns represent what makes us human, the evolutionary key to our survival, our highest achievements and potentially our own destruction. Graves refrains from varying anything other than the composition of the figures throughout the series, inviting the viewer to focus solely on the essence of his work--the Technobabble patterns. When reading one of Graves’ paintings, the viewer is compelled to question why his patterns suggest the man-made. What differentiates the geometry we find in nature from the patterns of the built environment?