Work in progress, made during walks along the North French coasts,
with the photographic mission of DATAR (’84), the Atlantic Wall and migration as a reference.
I focus on the boundary line -a wedge or interaction- between the stuffed domesticated land and the wide open sea
A borderline series
The need to dissect the domesticated landscape is reflected in the search for knowledge concerning the surroundings and its elements, in the dissection of the hidden, the absent and the dysfunctional, in such a way that is comparable to Democritus who poked his own eyes out to gain a more profound insight. Paul considers this to be a long-termproject, which will ultimately encompass his mental universe. It’s a personal interpretation of the paradox of photography and deviates from the contemporary approach. It concerns a considerable archive of the exhibition of reality, a coded set of enigmas…
Excerpt from the text by Dieter Debruyne, for Urbanautica
