First Australians

Emily Pwerle’s “overrunning”

June 17, 2008 Art+Psyche

Emily Pwerle paints Awleye Atnwengerrp (women’s ceremony) dreaming at Utopia, Northern Territory. (See this article on her.) Here’s a lovely work of hers, and I’m struck by the connection with it and Merleau-Ponty’s “the whole landscape is overrun with words” (see previous post). Emily Pwerle – Awelye (UGEP4552) (around 1930 – ) Acrylic on linen, [...]

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Occupied territory of another sort

May 3, 2008 Art+Psyche

Australia’s ACT (the Australian Capital Territory) strikes me as a powerfully symbolic territory (of a different sort to Winton’s territory occupied by the ratepayer) and one that has a place in our collective psychic life. This fact has not been lost, of course, on the original inhabitants of this land, who for 36 years have [...]

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