phosphene Motifs
Background: Llwyd 2012
For many years we explored the rock art of the western desert particularly about the water rock holes and often found extroidinary ancient petroglyphs and ocher paintings
There was a deep personal collision of cultures in our ourselves when we explored the petroglyphs of the Boyne valley north of Dublin in Ireland where we came across the same petroglyph motifs
After 30 years experiance of painting and drawing with children, I confirmed that these Phosphene Motifs hold the patterns as universal visual pattern
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Illustration © Kellogg, R, Knoll, M., Kugler, J. (1965). Form-similarity between phosphenes of adults and pre-school children’s scribblings. Nature 208,5015:1129-1130. Table 1.
Visual arts carry iconic imagery we call phosphene motifs. These patterns are the origins of all ART throughout man’s collective memory.
They appear to mirror the nerve receptors of the eye brain connections and have been named
“archetypes of the collective neural system “
With these Karrinyarra paintings we can align the universal phosphene patterns with a continuum of myth and meaning that maintains relationships with Land and Family
These enduring images still impact through to our roots as we recognize our Human Collective
