interest thought (001)

- by Clayton Eshleman

" I have also constructed a myth in the book on Ice Age art that primordial image-making was motivated by a crisis in which people began to separate the animal out of their about-to-be human heads and to project it on cave walls. The corollary to this intuition is that proto-shamanism may have come into being as a reactive swerve from this separation continuum, to rebind human being to the fantasy of a paradise which did not exist until the separation was sensed. "