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December 04, 2006
I'm reading Robyn Davidson's Quarterly essay No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet She says that traditional nomadic ways are under enormous pressure, and, with few exceptions, will disappear. She is sad about that as some valuable non-western nomadic ways of thinking about nature and culture will be lost.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Last series,1996
In the conclusion to No Fixed Address Davidson says:
There can be no return to previous modes of living, no retreat to the traditional as a way of shoring up identity, or denying rationality and the benefits of science. Such retrogression only lands us in kitsch. But there might be ways into previous kinds of thinking, prilgrimages, let's say, to newly imagined territories where, instead of arrogantly dismissing the traditional as useless to modernity, the best of each might be integrated.
Is not the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye an example of that kind of integration?
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