Paul Greco   fine art - printmaking

“ The eye likes to play, finding in the welter of visual impressions resemblances between quite different things: that is the beginning of poetry and of art. Metaphor, the essence of artistic vision, is the recognition of a profound kind of coherence; it is a construction put upon the world, a making of vital connections. It discovers meanings that defy a rational understanding, but which satisfy a deep human need for things to be seen as belonging to a pattern, and for there to be signs which indicate hidden affinities, unsuspected relations and associations. The eye seeks these signs and the mind interprets them. The world is revealed as continuous, predictable and comprehensible, and yet full of unexpected affinities and surprising correspondences. There is an ancient belief that these signs may be hidden in things encountered every day, at any moment. Sometimes they are overt, sometimes cryptic. As we go through the world we continually discern these relations, play the game of seeing similarities between dissimilar things; we are inveterate metaphor makers, makers of myths.’

 

Mel Gooding  -  The Playful Eye   -   Redstone Press  1999