2006 - 2007
the ancestor series
THE OTHER PRE- HISTORIC HUMAN text
THE OTHER PRE- HISTORIC HUMAN audio download
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For over ten years I have been interested in theories on human evolution. Different theories provide different images.
You see here images of Australopithecines (~1.5 mio - 4 mio years ago), Homo Habilis ( ~ 1 mio years ago), Homo Erectus (~400 000), Neanderthal people ( ~ 30K - 200K years ago).
My support for the AQUATIC THEORY is expressed in these paintings. I also support the view that 'culture' is an evolutionary buffer.
Check out my free audio download THE OTHER PREHISTORIC HUMAN. Which I have compiled for my exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Exeter.
Our distant ancestors are mythological creatures. They communicate with us not via reason or understanding. Whatever traces they have left are like faded footprints in the sand - talking tales of days gone by.
It seems fitting for images that illustrate such tales to search for the myth through which we are still connected, rather than wholly imaginary pictures of what might have been.
If we dig up the past, and, if we wish to honour ourselves through it, we need to find ways of looking at it with reverence.
Ivan Morf