Hunter Gatherer’s 🙌
The contours or these hands stencilled onto the rock by blowing pigment through hollow bones of animals they had hunted and eaten, is the art of conversation.
It is a conversation between positive and negative space.
They are conflicting entries written on stone
We are looking at a stencil pattern of ‘missing hands’.
We see contrasting colour and non-colour, defining shapes where those hands once have been.
The hands have long disappeared
And yet the missing hands are forever in conversation with the smooth rock .
And we ( by studying them ) join that conversation .
We try to imagine what has been said and what we are to say back to hem now?
How do we ‘spray’ our response ? Where do we stencil in our spaces and non spaces . This is an archaic calendar, a primitive journal, of overlapping entries
Perhaps when we perform our handiwork on the rocks, perhaps when we create art with them, we are leaving not just a mark, but a remark.
We, the modern hunter gatherers, use that same material . It’s ‘rock, all the time’ for us.
Rock always was the canvas.
It’s where art is made.
It's our canvas now .
