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| About painting |
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 Painting above: Grand Canyon, oil and wax on canvas, 2004. I paint in order to understand myself and my natural surroundings. My understanding can expand as fast as the paintings create new experiences about this relationship. The essential element of the interaction between man and nature is whether language and the concepts we have created can describe the system we are dependent on. For about 500 years modern society has sought to stand back from its environment and understand it through analysis. One of its central tools has been language, to the point where modern technology has become dependent on it. Our intelligence, senses and instincts are all different ways to understand our surroundings, but during the past centuries intelligence based on communication through language has become our dominant antenna. Intellect and language have won the battle of evolution over our senses but may become the dinosaurus on the field of the human mind. Logical thinking and testing inside modern science has proven to be very effective in order to improve our material and physical state. But in spite of the enormous increase of information in the modern world we do not know much more about the basic structure of the universe and the laws of life than our ancestors thousands of years ago. However, while basic metaphysical questions still puzzle us, we are facing much bigger problems concerning our survival than people before us. top |
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