We are all of us creative beings, who look for meaning, patterns and reassurances. Amongst the myriad means of expression open to us is the act of putting pigment on a flat surface. If I could express the existential, political, social and personal thoughts I have in words or music, I would.
Paint is the material that I choose to explore almost every day.
It has to be the most versatile medium, the most complex, the seemingly innocuous.
Its reality as a substance and the manner in which light changes it, has to be experienced,
not simply photographed (changed) and posted online.
Visual art is perhaps less about understanding and more about feeling; emotions that neuroscientists say occur a micro second before any rational thought.
The art work is an object that should communicate directly and require little explanation.
The act of (abstract) painting today, is an act of resistance and hope.
Resistance to the disconnect from our physical, material world,
and hope for better understanding of our emotional world
and hence a more tolerant society.
