Ochre

this is wonderful - I like this colours very much, Ken!

thanks Bixxy,
this reminds me that brown is not boring
:)

the brown looks like chocolate powder, the white, icing sugar, but what's the yellow??
anyway, well done!

sorry Lodchjo, not even vaguely edible
:-/

although it does have a richness, a sumptuousness
as it responds to the changing light of day.
And this I find quite exciting
:)))

damn... i'll keep craving for tiramisu then...

this is a piece of contemporary aboriginal art -
perhaps an alternate title for it could be "Tiramisu Dreaming"??

works for me!! :P

Ochre... that has been used as a ritual powder/colour since the stone age... hasn't it?

it has, some Aussie rock art is allegedly 40 to 50 thousand years old.
Indigenous Australians still us it for refreshing rock art and on barks and as body paint as well as on canvas.

This painting is by an Indigenous artist called Michael Aspinall - he uses ochre, contemporary pigment and sand on canvas. My understanding is that he was born in 1965, brought up by Europeans in Adelaide and later made contact with his mother's family out west. I sometimes wonder if he isn't part of our 'Stolen Generations' where Aboriginal children were forcebly removed from their families and given to Europeans to raise. Whilst there may have been an element of concern for their welfare, indications are that the destruction of aboriginal culture was a primary aim. This huge shame continued as late as 1967 I believe - a great sadness.

oh yes, I heard from a film about this 'stolen generation'!!!

I have never heard about the "Stolen Generations" ... that is really shocking... and according to Bixxy there is a film about it? I must try and find out...

the film Bixxy mentions is probably "The Rabbitproof Fence" I'd guess.
An OK movie but for me missed the point completely
(I'm arrogant as well as shifty it seems - laughing)))
For me, the main emphasis should have been not on the awful fact of us stealing Aboriginal kids but on the incredible courage and bushcraft of those little children. If European explorers had accomplished their feat we would be singing songs for them and honouring them on coins.

yes, that's the film - but I didn't seen them. I saw a documentary about the situation of the aboriginals today and they talked about this stolen generation. Is it right, they showed some activities to bring the old cultur back into live? I was very impressed of the prehistoric rock art and the aboriginal artists. There were some old women, who knew, how people could live in the wild areas and they tried to teach the others ... mmh, if I remember it - they showed them, how they can find and eat a special ant...

that would probably be honey ant - a swollen belly full of sugary stuff.
They tell me it's delicious, personally I don't have the courage
lol
I think aboriginal communities all over are trying to hang onto their culture
I hope they succeed

yes - honey ants - and I really don't want to eat them too - they was alive when the people ate them - bbrrrr....
But it was so interesting to see how they were cooking a big kangoroo in a pit - and they told some old stories for their children ... I went in a bokkshop after this TV-cast and bought an australian picture-book for my daughter "Turamulli, the giant quinkin" from Dick Roughsey and Percy Trezise. A great story , a little bit dangerous, but she loves it til this day!!!

yes, I believe they are best bitten live, not a thing I am comfortable with
brrrrr .... indeed
Dick Roughsey is a famous aboriginal artist but more I think in the European style rather than Central Desert (he's from Queensland if my memory is correct)