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:: exploring 4000 year old petroglyphs in Israel's Negev Desert ::

                            

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"A DESERT DANCE FOR WATER"
2007 : 42cm x 29cm : Inks & markers on card

This piece was inspired by an unusual petroglyph depicting an ibex and a river flowing from it. I felt that this glyph might have been concerned with the bringing of rain to the desert and have turned it into a dance ritual of rain magic. In the centre of the ibex we see rainmakers with sieves splashing water on the ground and the ibex itself becomes a kind of ritual enclosure. We also see the river bedecked with plants suggesting the fertility of water.


 

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