Artist’s Statement

Rylie Paull is a Rhode Island based, interdisciplinary artist. Her works are exercises in patience and exalt both time-wrought and time-worn beauty. Composing the complex patterning so heavily featured in her pieces allows for much introspection, as such, her works are naturally imbued with the ideas circling her head at the time of creation. Those ideas usually relate to

solitude

reflection

deep time

systems (natural and technological).

Ink drawings are her current focus.

These were born out of black and white ceramic sculptures.

Which were born of her carved ceramic vessels.

Which were inspired by a variety of sources:

Japanese zen gardens

Ancient spiral patterns

Natural formations

Architecture

Optical Illusions

Rorschach tests

Reflections & patterns in water.