To Love, Longevity, Protection and Goodluck

TO... LOVE, LONGEVITY, PROTECTION AND GOODLUCK

"ANOTHER NEW PAINTING!"

TO... LOVE, LONGEVITY, PROTECTION AND GOODLUCK

--ANOTHER NEW PAINTING FOR OUR COLLECTION--

Australian Cave Art is among the oldest & most interesting in the world. The people who later became known as Tasmanian Aborigines were the original Australians. Of course they were the first artists. 

Aboriginal symbols are an essential part of a long artistic tradition in Australian Aboriginal Art and remain the visual form to retain and record significant information.

Aboriginal people used symbols to indicate a sacred site, the location of a waterhole and the means to get there, a place where animals inhabit and as a way to illustrate Dreamtime stories.

To understand and appreciate Aboriginal symbols (or iconography) imagine how you would indicate, record and recall essential information or place names or events in a non material world.

Since Aboriginal people travelled vast distances across their country, significant information was recorded using symbols in regular ceremony. Sand painting and awelye (body painting) ceremonies kept the symbols alive and remembered. Later, these symbols were transformed into a more permanent form using acrylic on canvas but the meanings behind the symbols remains the same.

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal paintings from the Central and Western Desert art regions in Central Australia are rich in aboriginal symbols.

Generally the symbols used by  Aboriginal Artists are a variation of lines, circles or dots. Similar symbols can have multiple meanings and the elaborate combination of these can tell complex Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories. Combining the stories the Aboriginal Artist tells about the painting with an understanding of the meaning behind the symbols, will lead to a greater appreciation of the work.

THE PAINTING ABOVE IS THE ONE ANOTHY AND I BOUGHT FROM AN ABORIGINAL!

Goanna (bottom left and right) -Is for protection because in the outback the Goanna will go for the water source, therefore the aboriginees would follow these Goannas to find a source of water. 

Kangaroo (top left)- Is a sign of good luck and perceverence because the kangaroo cannot go backwards. The kangaroo is always looking forward or to the "future".

Turtle (top right)- The turtle symbolizes longevity and togetherness. This is because turtles have extremely long lives and live together in the same communities forever. They are the love symbol for the aboriginee people. 

TO LOVE, LONGEVITY, PROTECTION AND GOODLUCK,

NICOLE

P.S. We've bought a painting from each new location!