VanePaint, canvas, and paintbrushes are the tools that enable me to participate in non-violent resistance.
Through painting, I confront the increasingly patriarchal, conservative and environmentally irresponsible systems imposed on us, whether in Beirut or New York.
More than a means to express myself, painting is a need; it is my way of processing and interacting with the world around me.
Colors are of a primordial importance to my work because not only do they reflect both the natural and industrialized world but they are, more importantly, a path leading to a higher dimension, whether spiritually or intellectually.
Music too is at the very essence of every stroke of the brush, and long before that, at the center of how I visualize landscapes, how I sense and try to convey vibrations and movement.
I paint frantically; it is my way of injecting a small, perhaps insignificant dose of poetry into the blue – in a way, a stripping down of things to their essence, a greatly needed force to pull the world back upwards towards a more elevated state.
Vanessa
