when i picked fruit in australia i worked for a while with an aboriginal man called eddie. this one time someone on the crew started to talk about the battle of isandlwana. a battle between the zulus and the british. i wasn't listening to much as they were a few drills down from me so tough to hear against the tractor engine. i did shout out that it was the last battle where spear won against the gun. a little while later eddie came up to me and quietly said i was wrong. there had been an incident in the northern territories in the 40's where his people had attacked a police station without guns and had won. i told him I did not know that.

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a few weeks after that we ended up working together and this time he started to explained to me that the dreamtime is

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' when you are asleep you are awake and when you are awake you are asleep'

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i think about that when i look at paintings and i wonder if you can hold two parallel states of consciousness, what does that do to your art. does that make you break and bend form ? does that give you a freedom in expressing? and if so , why has western art desired form?