The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
And more....
Being a survivor is not unalloyed joy.
These ochre pits have been used by Indigenous Australians in South Australia for tens of thousands of years. Standing there, looking at them, I couldn't help but think of the generations of people who used this ochre. It is good to know that Aboriginal art is flourishing right now and that this tradition continues. So much else is lost.
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