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October 01, 2006
I've been exploring the links between Heidegger and aboriginal art around Puritjarra over at philosophical conversations.
Mandy Martin and Mike Smith, Palimpsest, Found local and sourced pigment, sand, rock shelter floor matter, ochres and acrylic on Arches paper, 2004
According to Wikepedia a palimpsest is a manuscript page, scroll, or book that has been written on, scraped off, and used again. If it is a basic tenet in rock-art that images tend to accumulate at selected sites and also at specific rock panels, then the rock face would be the 'manuscript' at Puritjarra and it can be interpreted as having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface.
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