A painter would suggest this:
Painting has an important role to play in our society despite of what people and the art world itself proclaim with frequent judgements. Painting – the act of and the responsiveness to – is a role-model to the following:
- Self-sufficiency, to the reachable measure
- Non-consumerism
- A sense of devotion outside religions
- A measurable ability for concentration
- A chance for contemplation with result to non-navigated thoughts
- A movement of the brain in connection to the intelligent movements of the hands
- A sense that time and space expand, shrink and take forms in respond to our disposition
- A counter balance to art as entertainment
- A living connecting point to tradition and history
- A dimmer of human created noise