My work is my autobiography. My current work explores my past and present using photography as the means to establish image and composition. By examining my past images from sound projects, travel locations and an on-going self-portrait series, new ways of looking at space and geometry have emerged.  Snippets of life, gesture and color are brought together to form a visual scape that is both representational and purely abstract. For years I have pondered the notion of what is representation/reality and abstraction/truth.  Is a photograph reality or truth?  Is representation abstraction or reality?  In an era of technology driven media, do boundaries blur, or do they simply stop existing?

Architecture continues to be the most inspirational means to explore my visual, performance and sound work. The collection of digital images responds to my Bauhaus education at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, plus reflects my current life in Arizona, which is new and a bit disorienting. Art is a combination of experiences and current questions needing answers. As I review my photographs, the life that made them comes back to me, which affects my current state of mind and creativity. Memories push me forward to find the conclusions that the new works demand. A new life, in a new location, opens the door for fresh responses and outcomes. What the photographs capture is merely the beginning of the visual journey to what the digital collages become. 

I have never been a fan of digital media. Typically, I avoid computers at all costs. After moving to the Arizona desert, I suddenly felt ready to manipulate space and saturation, with pixels and code, to discover myself in this new environment. This new environment of scrub and sun also makes me question scale...questioning what is ‘intimate’ and what is ‘epic’. Many of the new digital images may become large scale oil paintings as thoughts on scale evolve and develop. Never stay locked into one mode of thought.Quiet moments of line, of a hand, of a piece of landscape, take on a much larger meaning when scale and proportion demand attention and closeness. Each image draws the viewer in to find their own place to land and find themselves. Abstraction is not a style, but a state of mind...a balance of subtlety and boldness, confidence and risk...the known, and that what needs to be found.

Paul Lorenz is curious. He explores visual and audible work through experimentation and media logic. Where his journey begins is usually very far from where it ends.