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Paintings on the Wall of the Cave of the Three Brothers

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What do we see when we see the imag eof an animal>. . . . . I tend to see the swirl of memory in an image like that, as when I close my eye and think of myriad things that have happened to me over the past days, trying to hold on to all of this in a single image. I see the real happenings merge into complex abstraction as I imagine a drawing of it, like the child’s layered storytelling, like the camouflage hidden in a spattered Pollock ~ Page 234

I don’t know how much this story relates to layers of ancient animal imagery, but it does back up the standard notion that ancient art was meant to recount important practical stories rather than abstract imagery common to the root forces of life. It suggests that ancient humans are closer to the world of animals, to those aesthetic universe ale that may or may not exist along the evolutionary pathways of life. ~ Page 235

So what are our root images, the visual thoughts at the earliest memories in our brains, those pictures that precede even language or any attempts to organize thought? This is why I am interested in the earliest glimmers of human art – not ao much ro explain why our species needs art but to ask what are the most basic things our brains can see. We have to get far back beyond the idea of representing tasty animals that we would like to kill and eat, into the very imagery the brain makes for itself even without any outside stimuli. ` Page 236

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