Paul Mardikian
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Birth Place: France
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My artwork is probably the result of a wide combination of influences including -but not exclusively- my work as an archaeological conservator over the last 20 yrs. It is also a blend of cultures and encounters with splendid individuals and places. My heart is filled with European, African, Asian, Australasian and American wonders.

Most of my early work is inspired by Lascaux and rock art in general. Not really for the representational power of the animals, more for their abstract beauty and the miracle of their preservation. This incredible preservation after some 18,000 years is the result of an unexpected combination between the human hand and the mineral substrate. The human being behind the trace is long gone but the trace remains almost intact. This thought inspires and fuels all of my work.

I am obsessed with traces. It is like a 4000-year-old piece of pottery with a fingerprint on it; nothing can beat that feeling of discovery, nothing in the world.

My artwork is about creating artifacts and telling stories my own way.
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