Mountain of Elephant by Christopher Lakony

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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions (H/W/D): 81 by 60 by 4 cm.
Year made: 2005
Framed: As per artist instructions

I didn’t start painting because I wanted to earn a living from it. It was more of a form of therapy for me, because having been on the street it was very difficult to come back to a normal life of nine to five employment and the rest of it. Therefore, when I started painting it wasn’t at all to earn money but to have something to do. Painting has contributed a lot towards my happiness and in restoring my confidence in general life, the daily events.

A painting talks about one’s life and helps other people to gain therapeutic values from it.

In western society the art society taught people to feel art from the perspective of the art experts. This results in losing a lot of skills of people who could be giving a lot to society in terms of painting. Simply because of one’s background, where they went through education, it makes them totally irrelevant in their contribution towards art of the particular society in which one lives.

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I think art plays a big role in society and to the public in particular. Art is a form of therapy to the painter and, if I look at it from the perspective of a member of the public, it can be very therapeutic as well. Art tells a lot about a person as well as about society, which a person is a member of. As an African my art reflects my cultural aspect of life. This is a very important aspect to the public – hence I ask myself, what does the public gain from it?

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