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Craig Foster: "I began to interact with the tracks themselves, and began to 'carve' my own artworks into the red sand. I drew inspiration from discovering 'entoptic' rock engravings that were inscribed by the ancient San artists. The San Shamans would go into trance while dancing, and use this 'trance state' to heal, to influence the animals they hunted, and to make rain. While in trance they would 'see' distinctive shapes, such as starbursts and nested "U" shapes. After the trance, they carved them onto rocks."
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The Great Dance, a hunter's story
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Rock Art
Earthmarks
Introduction

 
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Earth mother shakes
and
early man
whispers
a rainbow

 
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A piece of broken sky
lying on the ground
swirling free
feeling texture
holding form

 

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In the ripples on the sand
we see great rivers flowing,
vast plains of cracked earth,
the rings of a tree,
leaping flames of fire,
wind-washed waves of sand,
the branches of sun-stripped wood.
If we listen to the fragments of space
that lie between the lines,
between the ripples on a pond,
between the veins on a leaf,
we will hear the sacred sounds
and see the magic pictures
of the ancient language of light.

 

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The primal roar still drips
from the old monoliths,
soaking the limbs
of the great knotted ones.

It raises its wind-torn
blood-dripped jaw
and howls a
moon-clouded night.

Rim-redded puffs of dust
on flying hooves
paint its magic message.

Search the pinnacle of your hood,
extract its juice and
pour the firelight,
flickering on the wild eyes
of the cave-smoked faces.

Turn and stare onto the
Earth-drenched countenance
of Old Africa.

 

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Eyes blind
cling to drops
of fresh light
burning to
open wide and
receive the sound
of earth's rush

 
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Flowing stone
Thirsting earth
Mother giver

 

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Sand so fine
air so clear
you can see
the calls of birds
dripping from the
sky

 
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Countless sorrows
melted by one
tiny drop

 
Earthmarks 12
Drifting free
in a web
of magic light
bristling with the
fullest intention
of defying
gravity

 

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A single beat
of a giant raptor's wings;
in the curled air,
rushing over arched tips;
leaving earth,
leaving its
feathered mark

 
Earthmarks 14
Look out -
look out from the balconies of light

The air -
the air is so pure

that you can see
across to the next galaxy

and glance in wonder
at your own skeletal mass

protruding from that tangible shield
of self-reflected sanctuary

 

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Damp dry
Sand born
No wings
But can fly
…still…
in flight

 

 

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