Connection To The Land And The Soul

I’ve found that traditional Aboriginal art does have to main themes running through it, the land and spirituality. I think this is why I’m struggling to really get involved with it. If there is two things I have no connection with in my life it’s a connection with the land and a connection with spirituality. The spirituality is easily explained, I simply do not believe in any higher being or any type of force that can not be scientifically explained. When someone is talking about their spirituality I’m simply not moved at all. People may think thats cold but everyone has a right to believe in what they want.

The land is harder to explained, especially when my family has a long history with it. I come from a long history of farmers that have been farming in Australia since the early 1800s. So I guess you could say I have an ancestral connection to the land (obvious no way near as long as the 40,000 years though). But I’am the first generation to break away from that tradition because I simply have no interested in the land. When it comes to art I also have no interest with the land. Just because I say I have no interest in the land doesn’t mean I’m hostile to it, it’s I just don’t think about. This may very well change in the future but at the moment the art I make and like has no connection to spirituality or the land.