THE SOFT BOOK OF MEN

Illustration on paper | Hand stitched illustration | Animation | Personal projects

Mr and Mrs Bolhanseck | The soft book of men | Shoes, bones and factories

Soft Book of Men is a new approach to Paula´s constant concern for expressing the imperfections, incongruities, desires and enigmas of the human condition.

At the center of this new proposal is the silhouette of a little man, a kind of synthesis or symbol, sometimes ironic, sometimes stark and disconcerting, of the human insignificance and the darkest folds of the soul. The little man travels through guilt, vanity, power, fear, violence, sex, failure, sadness, loneliness, love and death like so many psychoanalysis stages that reveal his disorientation. His presence is always disturbing, and on each page there is an enigma, an unresolved scene that questions the viewer.
In this project the artist moves away from her technical mastery to achieve a new expressiveness with techniques previously unexplored or only timidly handled, such as large format oil painting, sculpture or audiovisual media.