Why Paint?
I'ts much more fun as a question than an answer. But here is my attempt at an answer
Drawing and manufactured image making shows us the world from a human perspective. Art is a mirror for us to see who we are and where and when we live. It gives us the opportunity to hear the magic of what other people see. Art is communicating a story, a memory or an emotion without words.
It may take a while for you to see what the image to the left is (two cows). Like the fuzzy 3D pictures that you cross your eyes at then suddenly the three dimensional effect pounces on you, once you can see what the image is, it is hard to imagine how you could not have understood what those black and white spots where. This shows that understanding an image can change us.
How we see, and how we understand the world, is not just about opening your eyes and letting the world in. We interpret the image our eyes show us, art is a layer of that interpretation. Only it is from someone else’s mind, and that's amazing
I love non verbal language, I wrote my college thesis on it. It has been argued that there is no higher thinking without language (Susan Sontag). I know that understanding things often resides outside of language. Sometimes the best way to say things is by gesticulating, drawing on a napkin or Art.
So I guess that these images are some thoughts I had on the matter.
Amelia Bernays is a painter working in London. Her work started out figurative and then moved to the conceptual side during art school at Central St Martins, focusing on meaning in material. The very successful piece, Y2K was exhibited at the London Institutes showcase exhibition Exhibit 99.
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