Here’s a nice work by Sam Byrne, one of Australia’s bush (folk) painters from the Silver City (Broken Hill). It’s a work that explores his ideas of the origins of humanity, and is currently at Eva Breuer in Sydney.
Sam Byrne (1883-1978)
Our Ancestors the Cave Dwellers
oil on masonite
63 x 120 cm
Byrne is reported to have said:
My belief is that our first ancestors were made out of the soils of their environment. They came up out of the sand, black people from black sand, yellow people from yellow sand, white people from white sand and brown from brown.
From the point of view of psychotherapy, I like this as a depiction of our noumenal, multiple selves – informing the landscape of our phenomenological experience.
