After attending the University Of Southern California (where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa
and Magna Cum Laude in 1969) Paul Kasprzycki embarked upon a fifteen-year odyssey
throughout much of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The last ten years were spent aboard his own
vessel, godot. Infatuated by the ocean from early childhood, and while still in grade school, Paul
was led into the world of boats and boat-building, which taught him the skills of the shipwright
and the love of the curve and fair line. As a young man between voyages, boat-building and
furniture-making occupied most of his working time, which sharpen his skills with the years, and
led him into the world of exotic hardwoods and hardwood sculpture.

As a child, Kasprzycki learned an interest and respect for "the Law" from his mother, who
was a legal secretary, and from his father came his passion for philosophy and the great thoughts
passed on to us from the philosophers of old. So in high school, studying Latin was a must if he
was to become a lawyer. Once at the university, though, it wasn't long before the mystic of the
ancients captured his imagination. His emphasis of study changed to ancient history and
philosophy, which piled on another three years of intense scrutiny of the Latin language (which
would later prove instrumental to his unraveling "Endlish").

On the very day he was to be handed his diploma, Paul set sail for Hawaii aboard Trollop.
During the eleven-day passage from California to Lahaina he made a decision that forever altered
his future. He would make the sea his way of life, and the freedom of the ocean the "castle" he'd

call home. It was two years later when Paul finally left Trollop in Panama returning to California
to build his dreamboat. In July of '74, godot touched the sea for the first time. Within days, godot
was plying the waters off California's channel islands. That year, Thanksgiving dinner was at
anchor off the beach of a still very quiet Cabo San Lucus. For the next ten years, without
interruption, Paul indulged in a level of gypsy-like "unfettered-ness" that can only come with a
devotion to voyaging and the simplicities it imposes upon one's lifestyle.

In 1977, at sea aboard godot, Paul had a mystical encounter during which he was gifted

The Mystery Of The Number Symbols, along with being imbued with an overwhelming interest in
the mathematics of geometry. He was "told" this would be his life's work, that the number symbols
would be his calling card, and the geometry a key to understanding Universe and our place here
on Earth and amongst the stars.

Over the years, much of his artwork has been inspired by these experiences. Kasprzycki
considers The Geometry of Form (a work in progress) to be far and above the most significant of
all his endeavors, regardless of medium. For like the number symbols, which have been here for
all to see all these years, and are so obvious that one wonders "why" it took so long for someone to
"notice", so too is the Geometry of Form simply obvious.

Today, Kasprzycki lives and works at his home/studio in Napili on the island of Maui.

© Imagio Savastano 2003