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| “Songlines”
Dedicated to Bruce Chatwin It was during his time as a school-teacher that Arkady [Bruce Chatwin’s guide] learned of the labyrinth of invisible pathways which meander all over Australia and are known to Europeans as “Dreaming-tracks” or “Songlines”; to the Aboriginals as the “Footprints of the Ancestors” or the “Way of the Law.” Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path – birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes – and so singing the world into existence. Acrylic/Canvas 120x100cm |