Public Safety

It is interesting to note an inscription on the back of one of eddington's canvasses: "I would rather be a painter than a soldier." Could this mean that he has stopped campaigning for the improvement of social values, and now advocates a life of gaiety and distraction? I think not; read on - a gun amnesty changed his life: Pistols for Pigment.

Now he fights with paint to instill the folly of war and destruction. "As with Adam, my body is assimilating the fruit, then an electrical current pains my soul; it hit me as though it is a private section of something that is quite separate to a realization in itself."

This raises a delicate point. Should we take the world as a double process, actualisation in one's head and realisation in our bodies? Yes, eddington says, something that has been triggered - Realisation, then Actualisation. No, there is no actualisation, unless one calls the ethereal marks on canvas so, but there are primal responses; his paintings are messages of hope, sadness, the folly of aggression and public safety.

Actualisation and Realisation