Neolithic ‘cup and ring marks’ at Lordenshaw in the Simonside Hills, Northumberland. My own. #RockArt #Archaeology #Neolithic #Northumberland

"𝒥𝒾𝓂𝒾"

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky...

Chalk pencils + acrylic /metallic underpainting
50 x 65 cm size
on black artist paper
100% freehand artwork!

"The Burrup Peninsula,
in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

"Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/climate-activists-fined-over-protest-outside-woodside-boss-meg-oneills-perth-home-ntwnfb

Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812251562/murujuga/
#FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

Wow, this is a beauty! #Colombian #Indigenous elders explain some ancient #rockart to #archaeologists.

'Painted in vibrant ochre pigments, the high diversity of animal motifs—the artwork ranges from taxonomically specific to quite ambiguous, often showing a fluidity between humans and animals—holds key information for how those in the Amazon understood the world around them.

As archaeologists have studied in the area for the past six years, recently work turned to six of the artistic panels at the Cerro Azul outcrop. Speaking in Spanish and the Indigenous languages of Desana, Tukano, and Nukak, elders told archaeologists how the idea of transformation was a key theme throughout the art, including humans morphing into birds, sloths, lizards, and snakes.

Any time an animal appears in a non-realistic state, such as a panther drawn with two heads, they depict the spiritual world, Tukano-speaking Ismael Sierra said. A Desana elder told the team spirits themselves drew the art because of how high up in the rocks some of the art was.'

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63633494/amazon-rock-art/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

To exercise control over what happens to you as an individual, you must be involved with others in a process that decides what happens to you and your fellow citizens collectively. We can no longer separate the quality of personal life from the quality of social life. To preserve private space, we must also preserve the commons.
-- Willard Gaylin and Bruce Jennings (The Perversion of Autonomy)

#Wisdom #Quotes #WillardGaylinandBruceJennings #Autonomy #Society

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

I think I'm liking my new method for enhancing very weathered petroglyphs. I'm using the combination drawn and parametric masks in a second Darktable exposure module instance. First I paint in where I want the mask. Then I adjust it using the parametric functions. Then I lighten the faded petoglyphs. What do you think? Does this image look too manipulated or does it look fairly natural?

I don't see that it makes any point that someone in the Swedish academy just decides that this work is noble enough to receive a prize--I've already gotten the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding a thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it--those are the real things. The honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors.
-- Richard Feynman

#Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Discovery #Honors

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

A nice, likely, post-contact petroglyph panel. (Note the possible persons on horseback.) I brought up the contrast using drawn and parametric masks in Darktable to better highlight the glyph elements.

A culture is no better than its woods.
-- W. H. Auden

#Wisdom #Quotes #WHAuden #Culture #Nature

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #Ethics #Society #Work

#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah

New episode of tetzoopodcats! @TetZoo dissects a claim that a work of rock art depicts a dicyonodont.

About 20 minutes in, @john mentions Cave ants! Sadly it's some sort of mistake, possibly he meant "rock art" or "cave art", it's not actually about @futurebird 's beloved cave ants. Oh well.
https://tetzoo.com/podcast/2025/1/22/episode-94-live-at-tetzoocon

#dicyonodonts
#cryptozoology
#rockArt