Paul Kaptein is an Australian artist who specializes in sculpture and drawing.
Kaptein graduated with an Advanced Diploma of Art and Design from the Claremont School of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University.
Kaptein works with large blocks of laminated wood to reveal warped and distorted human figures, some pierced with a smattering of holes linked with drawn lines like star constellations.
Dramatic contours and warped curves interrupt the traditional human forms, making the sculptures seem as if they been intercepted by a digital software glitch.
Depending on the vantage point of the viewer, the figures can change from figurative to abstract, with some angles revealing an almost completely typically human body, while others uncover a striking warped effect.
Most of the Kaptein’s hand carved wooden pieces are in the middle of two modes of being – a stable, static appearance and some kind of mysterious state characterized by flexibility and fluctuation.
His hand-carved busts and figurative sculptures are additionally punctuated by gaps formed from the laminating process, creating the impression of digital glitches or images skewed by poor reception.
More of Paul Kaptein’s amazing sculptures can be found at https://www.paulkaptein.com/.
Humoring the Goddess 
Gee, it’s nice to know that someone else could see and create the things I once thought were only possible in my mind (when I used to trip out)
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Sometimes my anxiety makes me feel like several of the sculptures…..
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