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"Someone told me recently that ‘rock art is dead.’ If ‘Art’ was dead, that would not matter to we Aborigines. We have never thought of our rock-paintings as ‘Art.’ To us they are IMAGES. IMAGES with ENERGIES that keep us ALIVE—EVERY PERSON, EVERYTHING WE STAND ON, ARE MADE FROM; EAT AND LIVE ON.
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Instead of talking about ‘Rock Art’, we should be thinking about our responsibility to keep all things of Nature alive, to STIMULATE those places the way Aborigines have always done in the past."

This is a quote from the well-known statement about 'rock art' by David Mowaljarlai (Mowanjum community, Western Australia).

Mowaljarlai, David, Patricia Vinnicombe, Graeme K. Ward, and Christopher Chippindale. 1988. “Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture”. Antiquity 62 (237): 690-696.

#RockArt #Image #Art

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269164534_REPAINTING_OF_IMAGES_ON_ROCK_IN_AUSTRALIA_AND_THE_MAINTENANCE_OF_ABORIGINAL_CULTURE_1988

Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024 (A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine).

"The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty. In this report, we offer a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces
since October 7, 2023."

"We compile and offer this information with the understanding that the erasure
of Palestinian culture and history has long been an Israeli tactic of war and occupation, a means to further limit the self-determination of the Palestinian people."

#War #CulturalHeritage #Gaza #Israel #Librarians #Museum #Monument #Archive #Library #Culture #History #Palestine

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https://librarianswithpalestine.org/lap-gaza-report-2024/