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ABOUT ME I have been winning awards in the area of visual arts since I was only 9 years old. Since my mother was not really the encouraging type,
it was due to my own incentive that I took up hobbies and within the field
of visual arts at an early age. I became part of a garden club at the age
of 9 and won awards, for posters drawn.
These small beginnings were just the step forward into a world of imagination
for me. Not just the idea of imagination, but the validation of imagination,
and communications which are subtle but effect us in our everyday lives. Things
such as dreams, the sudden glance at a star in the sky one has never seen
before, the jumping of a fish out of the water.. All such rare gems but in
our everyday lives, and all around us, and yet touch us lightly on our hearts,
almost pushing ourselves into a positive world more vivid with every passing
day.
I have been exploring many facets of art, and the concepts of art, such as
music (having a bit of a history in playing with several small unknown bands
of my own partial creation.) I have been and am inspired by different things
one of which has always been music, whether raw or polished, the idea of sincere
emotions have always been appealing to me.. thus a stint in getting my BFA
and studying performance art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
was somewhat helpful and reinforced a certain love for live musical performance
in an actual city environment, which had always been apart of my inner world.
I am also inspired by astrology, and other pseudo sciences which purposefully
try to decipher the languages of the unconscious mind, as well as the hard
sciences that try to define the world we know and our perceptions of things
in a communal reality-based way. What else can I say about myself? I am a
mum now and this is the most precious project I have undertaken and the most
time consuming.
I am still on occasion struck by the lightning of inspiration, but it takes
a while to actually go somewhere with it… The future? Wide open and sometimes
undervalued for me as I live in a moment which is always passing so technically
I live in my own future, every moment, so I do tend to look backward when
searching for answers to the future and that direction a bit too much. I hope
that within the next few years however, that my visions and inspirations will
be shared with an even wider circle of friends, and that I will be able to
fulfill my dream to travel to Svälberg, and perhaps Iceland and take some
photos of the wildlife there, as well as the culture which has evolved so
far up in the arctic circle, so near to me now.
Thesis: Inspiration within nature, culture, and dreams. C. Dorian Paul, Huddinge,
Sweden 2004
REFERENCE I have known Caprice
Dorian Paul for over a year, and in that time she has impressed me as
a most imaginative, original and quite competent young thinker; and I respect
her insight into issues both global and minuscule, which may translate into
a sincere concern for the environment—including the tiniest of our planets’s
creatures—but this concern is not simply a token demonstration characteristic
of her age but a genuine caring.
I regard Ms. Paul’s artistic efforts, her fantasy approach to creation, her
experimentation with oils, acrylic, and mixed media, as suggestive of fine
promise. Lurking on her canvas is the mythic, the unflinching exploration
of the inner life expressed in totem-like visages, Jungian symbols. These
evoke a rich blending of animal/plant motifs that approach the archetypal
in all of us; I am convinced that her ability to fathom creative myth's from
a simple cursory experiences verges on intuition that can be almost called
extrasensory.
And I think highly of Ms. Paul’s intellectual gifts, those habits of scholarly
attitude that go beyond the creative: discipline, application, devotion to
our humanist tradition. In our conversations she is frequently the initiator
of novel ideas, listens actively and contributes with enthusiasm, often with
remarkable insight, erudition.
When my colleagues and I speak of Ms. Paul’s work, her motivation, love of
learning or her involvement in extracurricular activities, it is with consistent
affection. She is well-liked by her peers. Perhaps at times Ms. Paul is a
little emotional – but this should not be counted against her, as this feature
of her personality may well be the hallmark not only of fine artists but of
fine human beings as well….” – Peter
Hargitai March: 1990
