Paul Humphris with artworks in progress
Paul Humphris current praxis is about the neon remembrances of
living and working in Japan, whilst walking through the endless shopping
arcades of the Kansai region. If you've been through these unending mazes of shopping arcades in
the cities of Japan, you will more than likely know what the neon, fluorescent sales signs are about, with the constant shop lights flickering omnipresently day and night, it is truly
overwhelming to one senses at times.
Within Humphris’s praxis there is the usage of neon pens that one
can buy at many of the shops that dot the arcades, they’re not overly
expensive, nor is the paper and this tends to escalate the sensation of the cheap
purchases one can make from countless shopping forays into the oversupply of cheap goods.
Interestingly, Humphris creates these artworks in silence back in Britain, he creates an almost meditative praxis within his studio, to bring the remembrances experienced in Japan as clearly as he can into coloured textural traces on paper and
this is curious because it has being shown the silence may well replenish and enlarge the brain
in this article by
This is a good exhibition by Humphris and one looks forward to what he returns from London with the next time he comes to Japan.
