An image of group exercise is a powerful one.  It unsettles.  Why is this?

Perhaps it reveals something about ourselves that we don’t necessarily want to accept, and when we look upon this fact from the outside it appears stupid to us.

Is there a clue within this image as to how we can best utilize painting as an artform?  The same effect would not be achieved through writing because writing forces us to see through anothers eyes.  It is the homeland of opinion.  Painting, whilst not being as democratic as photography, is certainly more democratic than writing.  Because it doesn’t have this voice dictating opinion onto us, painting is perfectly placed to make this kind of comment.  Essentially painting has a limited area in which it can function to its fullest potential, but it is best when it is like a mirror held up to humankind.  Photography in turn cannot have this ability because at heart the photographers eye is a naive eye.  A painting gains power through its deliberateness in the choices made.

This is a terrible post, i’ve just read it back.

But in there is something that almost makes sense, so i’ll leave it.  What the hell.