For him personally, it also resonates with indigenous Australian ways of defining what it means to be human. Up north in the Kimberley where he has worked most of the time, he says, rock art is not thought of as just images upon rock. “The rock is actually not a rock but it’s a formation out of the dreamtime that is alive, that is in the living world, that people inhabit. And people themselves are part of that.” Human and object, object and environment, are not separated by hard divisions the way they are in most Western worldviews.
