Of Memory and Place
Eland and Motobo Hills National Park Cave Art
Story is a source of memory, a cultural depiction of time and place, of shared history and a glimpse into life during ancestral times. It informs identity and a current way of being.
Zimbabwe’s Matobo Hills is one of Africa’s most prominent rock-art regions with paintings found scattered across the tactile surface of aged rock shelters keeping record of life dating back to the Early Stone Age.
We see stories of community, of the natural ecosystem, of spirituality, of shamanism, of hunting and gathering. These complex scenes tell of a time of coexistence between a people, a landscape and the animals that inhabited it and how they became imbricated into the fabric of place.
Oil on Canvas
60in x 40in