Earthlings

I have always loved Aboriginal paintings.  I never knew why, but as I lay trying to go to sleep last night a thought occurred to me.

Maybe what I like about them is that they express the world the way I see it.  Not with lizards and kangaroos and crocodiles and certainly not with snakes!  I am thinking of the style of painting.

I believe we are all made of the same basic things and these things move between us and through us and around us, in various ways.  It’s the old in the beginning there was the earth thing.  Everything else sprang out of that.

The building blocks are on the floor and however they come together the smallest ones always have moving parts.  I really am you at the most fundamental level.

It seems to me that the Aborigines have captured that with their dots and short flowing lines.  I can almost see the earth shimmering through them.  And just because my world has grown so far away from these basic tenets doesn’t mean the reality of it has changed.

The bottom line is we are people of the earth, from the earth.  We are earthlings!