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Paul Coombs' work is an introspective mirror, a self-consciousness projected onto others. These are images of merging identities, of fragmented and refragmenting lives. They reconfigure themselves even as they fall apart, struggling against the fear of dissolution in our overly ordered society. They occupy the same space as Hesse's Steppenwolf or Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
As Hesse himself wrote on Harry (the protagonist in Steppenwolf)
'…[T]o explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.'
Paul describes his work as 'a world in fidget; a place full of furtive glances & paranoid whimsy'.
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