Paul Wackers

Artist Paul Wackers' drawings and paintings are clearly rooted in a collective memory of hope and despair. His paintings of imaginary make-do architecture fashioned together with string, hemp and bamboo have all the aspiration of an alternative community. Electronic sound plays an important part in setting the tone where images of speakers are often used as a device for creating a central harmonious tone. Dreamlike and not dissimilar from the record cover art of the 1970's, Wackers incorporates his strange and spurious leftovers of urban spiritualism to create his trance-like non-places.