Complex confrontational era

We live in a complex confrontational era of conventional war under the last resort of the nuclear age. We also live in an age of migration , both those fleeing for their live as civilians or invading militaries, no longer relying upon cyber hacking, social media junkyism, where we have relaxed upon our own western smugness and complacency of the Berlin wall being breached and AI and all our firewalls being invaded. Relativism has been succeeded by plundering idealism in order to 'flood the zone' to brutalize any resistance from a war-torn global zone at war with itself ! Painting is not even acknowledged as a contemporary medium by TATT, here in the 3rd decade of the 21st century!!??? We have been put in what Weber called the "iron cage" of being blindly following the leader, or...is that another herd?? Political ideology is going walkies..... and yet there is an emergence of a self-taught army of Painters here in the UK unmolested or not susceptible to technological advances or transitions!! We are tech free, providing a safety zone for catharsis on canvas and visually representing growth upon it!!

The shakedown or revenge of the Painting still had a purpose when out of favour, and this is a reminder of other such struggles.... Dadaism in 1916 amidst the agony of global industrial war still led to Surrealism in the 1920s/30s which was hated by Hitler as degenerate (even though he admired the Italian Futurists who celebrated the industrial production of war and a militarisation of society.!!? As an anti-war campaigner to enforce by negotiations settlements, solving problems by quid pro quo arrangements as the one benefit (and I am not a supporter) and legacy in the turmoil of Trump's Presidency! He taught us about transactions and the psychology of it.... Long may that be true and quickly may his presidency be over!

If I owe Trump anything I will paint a portrait of him, I just hope I can do it justice... mind you I'm not sure what justice looks like..... However, as a Painter, I can appreciate the likes of Columbus who discovered America, in spite of fears of him sailing off the edge of the world, and he proved that an invisibility point on a canvas or on a horizon or a form imposition is not the edge of the world or the cul-de-sac of visual terrain!