Light and colour – these two are inseparably linked. Colours could not exist without light; and light when it refracts creates colours, like the rainbow on a rainy day. Just as the world around us is illuminated and made colourful by the sunlight, so according to St. Augustine of Hippo the world of true ideas is illuminated by a Divine light of reason: "The mind needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth." Other philosophers in the middle ages also say similar things, for example the English thinker Roger Marston: "the eternal light, irradiating the human mind, makes a certain active impression on it, from which a certain passive impression is left in it, which is the formal principle of cognizing the unchanging truths". So, Divine ideas are illuminated by the light of reason, but outside, one can creatively express them using the light of colours, illuminating the whole work from within. Thus my paintings are and can be illuminated in many ways, like a rainbow, shedding light on a number of important themes and ideas in colour and form.
The music used in this collection of paintings ranges from the Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez ("Allegory of sound") to the Postmodern composer Rautavaara ("Spanish Portrait"), showing in another way that the noble ideas which have illuminated people, no matter whether through the centuries or in our times, are relevant in any epoch.
Light and colour – these two are inseparably linked. Colours could not exist without light; and light when it refracts creates colours, like the rainbow on a rainy day. Just as the world around us is illuminated and made colourful by the sunlight, so according to St. Augustine of Hippo the world of true ideas is illuminated by a Divine light of reason: "The mind needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth." Other philosophers in the middle ages also say similar things, for example the English thinker Roger Marston: "the eternal light, irradiating the human mind, makes a certain active impression on it, from which a certain passive impression is left in it, which is the formal principle of cognizing the unchanging truths". So, Divine ideas are illuminated by the light of reason, but outside, one can creatively express them using
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