Beneath the Earth

13 x 29 cm
mixed media on paper
 
The discovered bones tell the history of us. We build upon the past; our growth is based on what has gone before, our ancestors or histories we are all walking in their footsteps. Knowledge comes from previous discoveries and inventions improved upon over time. The knowledge is passed on through the knowledge of writing, generations of communications to be studied and absorbed. Much has been lost between the so called generations, past learnings crushed beneath conquering fear. Centuries of wisdom discarded in the dust, Libraries built on libraries, ignored what was learnt before. Back in China over the millennia rulers, politics and doctrine remained the same, the writing did not alter and no destruction of the past with each Emperor rejuvenating what was before, developing and growing knowledge and inventing so much more.
We learn from old bones that lie beneath us and marvel at the past we would learn so much more if the civilisations last.