This is so interesting! For the past two months I have been working on a human-to-animal adaptation artwork created from discarded clothing (metaphor for discarded humanity). The impetus for the work in progress had nothing to do with paleo-anthropology and paleontology. I thought I was making work about how humans are being experimented on, trained into obedience, and treated like animals by the overlords.
I am hesitant to write to you because I feel I might be wrong or am speaking about something I don't know about but have just read about.
But I am still curious and interested and would love to talk to you.
What you wrote here reminded me of something I read in George Gurdjieff's book Beezlebubs Tales to His Grandson.
Gurdjieff talked about devolution. A few things I remember Gurdjieff talked was about our ability to see colors. He spoke about the Law of Sevenfoldness. We see 7 colors. Gurdjieff said at the time of Babylon we saw 49 colors and in Ancient times we saw more than 5,000,000 with the exception of one.
Gurdjieff also spoke about our diminishing lifespans. Which reminds me of times when I went to India with my parents as a teenager and saw a place in the mountains where a person lived to 900 years if I remember correctly.
Gurdjieff also talked about different changes that were made to our species. I would love to read your thoughts on this :)
A quick comment: I loved reading this article (and your others as well!) because it reminded me of the deep conversations of life I used to have with other humans. It made me feel like I was back to a time where it felt wonderful to take in knowledge that was so new and so different, and let it tickle my brain. Thank you!
This is so interesting! For the past two months I have been working on a human-to-animal adaptation artwork created from discarded clothing (metaphor for discarded humanity). The impetus for the work in progress had nothing to do with paleo-anthropology and paleontology. I thought I was making work about how humans are being experimented on, trained into obedience, and treated like animals by the overlords.
Hi Enna,
I am hesitant to write to you because I feel I might be wrong or am speaking about something I don't know about but have just read about.
But I am still curious and interested and would love to talk to you.
What you wrote here reminded me of something I read in George Gurdjieff's book Beezlebubs Tales to His Grandson.
Gurdjieff talked about devolution. A few things I remember Gurdjieff talked was about our ability to see colors. He spoke about the Law of Sevenfoldness. We see 7 colors. Gurdjieff said at the time of Babylon we saw 49 colors and in Ancient times we saw more than 5,000,000 with the exception of one.
Gurdjieff also spoke about our diminishing lifespans. Which reminds me of times when I went to India with my parents as a teenager and saw a place in the mountains where a person lived to 900 years if I remember correctly.
Gurdjieff also talked about different changes that were made to our species. I would love to read your thoughts on this :)
A quick comment: I loved reading this article (and your others as well!) because it reminded me of the deep conversations of life I used to have with other humans. It made me feel like I was back to a time where it felt wonderful to take in knowledge that was so new and so different, and let it tickle my brain. Thank you!