Wednesday 12 August 2015

My summer residency at the National Water Centre

This summer I was an artist in residence at the National Water Centre, where I was working on my next book. Mike Forestell of the Waterkeepers organization dropped by the centre to interview me, and this profile is the result. Thank you, Mike.



Connected to societal collapse and the disintegration of language, Paul sees a growing abstraction from nature. Having spent equal portions of his childhood outdoors and in front of the TV, he surmises: “Nature is very popular—in the media. Everyone like pictures of nature. But you put those same people in [nature] and they shrink from it….My nature comes to me served up by Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom or David Attenborough, and it’s entirely educational, but it’s also sanitized”.

Read the entire profile here.


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