Expressing the inexpressible
by Anett Kilen Kennedy

For years painting was more like an investigative tool for me. I was extending myself to the world through the art and struggling to come to some sort of understanding of the universe at the same time. The turning point came when I decided to commit to study art. Then art became my subject and painting my vehicle for being. I am drawn to emotionally and intellectually expressive art. What exactly would paintings be, if they didn’t have the power to hit us where we live?

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of art and science.” Quote: Albert Einstein

Painting is like trying to express the inexpressible. Like a play with light. It’s the ultimate mystery. It’s like an activity that happens outside my control, as you paint to allow some greater force, raising perhaps from the unconscious, maybe the ultimate source of all imagery, to take over, open up all sorts of possibilities, of a secondary kinds of organic forms made about the human and animal world and deepen the channels of intuition and sensation.

“Art is ecstatic - or it’s nothing.” Quote: Mark Rothko

I examine the whole world through painting and want to show a facet of reality, but simultaneously try to keep an eye on the whole: concede space to the irrational and give form to the inexpressible. I am satisfied when I can see a kaleidoscope of possibilities. The paintings should be very intimate and human, like a place, like “Nakazura”, the silent place of all and nothing.

“This thing isn’t made. It’s got to be made.” Quote: Francis Bacon

I am seeking to open up a small crack to the outside world, shed some light on the puzzling darkness which surrounds all of human existence and try to build a bridge across the existential loneliness that we all share, but that also separates us. And I am not going to apologize:-)

“Light is the activity of what is transparent.” Quote: Aristotles