April 28, 2004
Paint
Jules Olitski,Bathsheba Reverie - Blue, 2001
You can almost feel the pain in your hands. The temptation is to play with the one's bare hands. Treat it like mud. Playing with paint.
Paint. It makes a difference from the flow of digital images in our media culture and a haven from the television's steady colonization of everyday life.
Paint. It keeps at bay the thought that philosophy is at its end and television is replacing it ands that we live amidst a world of images. Paint. It is the craft of yesterday to tomorrow's digitial/technological image crafted by the commercial machine.
Paint. It is the equivalent to the poet walking in the woods and loses herself in the rapture of its presence whilst the bulldozers level it the rainforest on the other side of the hill.