Meditations on Belief
Mattise Binauli
- Medium
Malawi
ca. 2019
Acrylic on canvas
Every day, the sun rises and sets, and creatures roam the forests, mountains, farms, and waters, Binauli observed. At night, the moon and stars shine. Thunder and lightning shower the earth, and beautiful rainbows appear in the sky, just as the rains end. “All these [testify] of the Lord Most High.” The artist speaks of celebrating the greatness of God so that when his children are grown, “they will firmly believe.”
Binauli describes himself as a deaf artist from Malawi whose landscape paintings tell stories of Malawi and Africa, past, present, and future.