The Validity of Painting

It is no doubt that we are living in a world where digital communication networks and social media take our time away from reverie, meditation, and imagination. In this regard, painting can help us experience what we are missing.

Painting is invaluable. It is done with human hands. It has a sense of primitiveness. Painting is probably the only area where mistakes are allowed, and that is the beauty of it.

Painting is a means of human desires which are to expand space, experience liberty, amplify emotion, and imagine something beyond what we see.

Painting is either aesthetic or anti-aesthetic. It is because our feelings colour what we see. It is like the same place may look different when feeling happy and when feeling sad.

Painting can be political, philosophical, therapeutic, spiritual, or just for its own sake.

Painting is a time-keeper and a memento.

For these reasons, painting still stays valid. By all means, it is worth retaining the practice of painting.