By Visiting Our Affiliates If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. Theirs is a culture of harmony with nature, survival without destruction, of a spiritual life inseparable from the ephemeral physical one. Hence, their art is not a mere expression of individual woes and experiences, it is a part of the very core of a people's soul. An oral civilization, and the oldest known to man, it passes knowledge, experience and spirituality through the storytelling of painting, dance and song, from one generation to another.
Art is as much a pedagogical device as it is a spiritual one.
It is the living and ever-evolving expression of a people's history, myths, beliefs and experiences. The stories, thus passed on, give the descendants the tools to survive in harmony with a harsh environment. Each owner of a story is the link between the origin and now and here, between the living and the dead, between the divine and the human. Aborigines belong and are in turn owned by their environment and history. They are one.