Atavist : Memory from Memory
Paul Devon Young
(Atavist; the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations. An atavist is an individual embodying such a reversion.)
‘These bodies of work come through me like a mystic journey’
The work is elemental and the raw materials define the work; clay, wood, metal - air, water, fire and earth.
During 2015 as Paul worked on a series of clay sculptures called Elemental Shrines, filmmaker, Ian Atherton made a documentary ‘Paul Devon Young - Elemental’... more