Posts tagged: dreaming
“This artwork depicts the Bush plum. The varying composition in colour and pattern reveals the geography of the Bush plum, as well as, the artists intimate knowledge of significant places, such as claypans, soakages and spinifex mounds.
Arnwekety is a food source for the Aboriginal people from Utopia in the Eastern desert of central Australia. The women pay homage through body paint, songlines and dance cycles in their ceremonies.
(Characteristics of Kathleen Ngala’s work is the unique over-dotting using layer upon layer of subtle colours; cream, pink, peach and white).”
Ronnie Tjampitjimpa (unknown group, Aboriginal Australian), Moon Dreaming, acrylic/canvas, c. 2003.
The painting depicts the Dreamtime Sisters dancing. The Eastern Arrernte ancestor spirit figures are known as Irrernte-arenye. It is their role to look after the Eastern Arrernte country and guide their families.
“What is reality? Why do people in extreme states feel connected to the universe, and experience uncanny and even supernatural events? Does quantum physics have something to teach us about madness? What if therapists were like indigenous tribal shamans, entering into clients’ “psychotic” worlds as if stepping into a dream? Arnold Mindell studied with pioneering scientists Richard Feynman and Norbert Wiener and then became a Jungian therapist and founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He discusses his more than 40 years of work with individuals and groups, including people diagnosed with psychosis, and the ancient belief in a purposeful dreaming reality behind everyday events.”