Hi Philip
Doesn't "aboriginal" (note lower case as you used) refer to native
indigenous peoples in general, and not necessarily Australian?
Obviously i don't know how it was written/described at the gallery.
The nests sound like a great concept.
Cheers
Dave Stowe
On 12/02/2007, at 7:30 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
I was in Brisbane last week and visited the Qld Modern Art Gallery.
Some bird things were so strange I thought worthy of telling the
story. Even though they are quite peripheral to the list usual
message.
One item was a large display cabinet of many nests of birds, all
labelled by the scientific name of the bird, however all of the
nests have been made out of shredded USA $ notes (all green). The
nests are man-made of course. Amazingly, they all look realistic
for the species as labelled, at least at a quick view (I had to
leave soon to catch the train and plane back to Canberra).
The other thing is pots painted in supposedly aboriginal totemic
designs, showing birds and other animals. Most designs are more or
less believable, however one pot, labelled as "Eagles" shows
several painted American Bald Eagles and another labelled "Owls"
shows an owl that I believe to be an Eagle Owl or most certainly
one of that genus (Bubo) and certainly not anything found in
Australia. I know aboriginal people have suffered displacement and
all that sort of thing but I really wonder how in tune are these
people with their environment and local fauna. Why do they show
totemic images of northern hemisphere fauna?
Even more obscure was a video showing a rooster and hen eating
rice, complete with two Asian voices counting each grain as they
ate them (total about 900). I'm not fibbing, that was the display.
Philip
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