From A to B and Back Again
There's nothing more American, then spending time in someone elses country.Here in the Northern territories, there's a feeling comes over you that you are gone back to Genesis. No wait, this is Charles Darwin's namesake , I mean,Evolution----It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard. Can't help thinking about the Dawin Awards--Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it.
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| As works of art, they appear to be conversations between two drunks |
Fair Trade Coffee is tired, Fair Trade Art is wired
Art is anything you can get away with, and making something out of nothing and selling it. The middlemen-Christies, Sotheby's- are good at that. But the "Imitation Industry" here-- at the malls, and t shirt shops, are better at it., sourcing their art from "Made in China\, Vietnam and Indonesia".
Every aboriginal art piece contains a story, passed down through generations over tens of thousands of years--but with some R&D, that is, rip off and duplication, from Xerox to infinity- the copy is better than the original, from a tourist -hedonists point-of-view of the look and feel of OZ, and we are none the wiser.
As Family Guy's Peter Griffin says" It insists upon itself", and like Peter, I have no clue what these stories tell, but I like the designs. I bought a t shirt, some boomerangs, but to my credit, I did visit authentic galleries and talked to the locals.
Say Know to Fake-Authentic
When I was in Paris in November 2010, the gallery owners and auction houses were price gouging this medium.I thought, today, I would shift my paradigm for a while and walk down the dirt road so to speak... a sort of cultural Lourdes, where the successful PR of aboriginal art making in the bush could be dispelled by a dip in the remote waters of aboriginal originality and simplicity, and receive a better inspiration of the creative forces of Dream time.
“The more you know, the less you need” is an Australian Aboriginal Proverb so:Just say Know.
