Phillipe Nault

Statement:

     I believe that art has a role to stimulate the expansion of the observer's consciousness beyond the limits of an ordinary perception of the world and of self. So perhaps, it is the role of the artist to gather and conjugate the elements to convey such experience.  My personal vision has, along the years, come to synthesize within themes that have the potential to function as a cradle for cosmic dimensions, a realm of perception in which we are aware of the natural correlation between all forms of existence, ourselves included. Our breathing, the tides of the oceans, our emotions, the rotation of the planet, the atmospheric currents, are all interconnected and interactive.
     Thus it is from this perspective that I envision my work: the building of windows from where one can feel and navigate a symphony of ocean swells and wind currents; heartbeats and magmatic motions; human migrations and celestial orbits; all themes that inhabit my work today.
     Myths offer such vision, as they emerge from a deeply sensorial perception of the world, and of the natural forces in action in the universe. They open for me great depths of perception into an ancestral experience of the world, to indigenous traditions that still today carry the memory of their origins, and where human nature is viscerally, emotionally, and spiritually, the offspring of the cosmic interplay between sky and earth.