[Stones] scholarship

[Ric]

"entoptic phenomena"
 
i am sure this is an aspect of 'cave art', but hasn't cave art has also been found at the mouth of cave systems? There are pictures of 'entopic art' here, in Namibia, outdoors though
 
http://www.socialfiction.org/gettags.php?tagski=entoptics&submit=send
 
if abstract cave art is indeed entoptic/entopic, what might be the method:- deprivation of light, entopic sensations remembered, and then transferred to cave walls?
 
thanks


Ric

--- On Thu, 19/6/08, Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com> wrote:

From: Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com>
Subject: Re: [Stones] scholarship
To: "The Stones Mailing List" <stones at stoneslist.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, 19 June, 2008, 8:01 AM

I thought the abstract art forms were a part of what is called entoptic 
phenomena. That is, the shapes that the brain creates when one spends a 
long time in the dark - sensory deprivation.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon

Merryn

Ric wrote:
> find i can't really take this 'self awareness' theory, /ipso
facto,/ 
> seriously. scientifically, /homo sapiens /has not altered 
> significantly since the Old Stone Age, and we are all of this species. i 
> especially love the Palaeolithic cave painting in France; if we were 
> safely allowed in Lascaux, i should go. i have my own pet theories on 
> what this art 'means', but haven't the faintest idea what the
- for 
> example - non-representational 'claviform', and other abstract
symbolism 
> means - some of which looks quite sinister to me; whereas the animal 
> forms are a delight to the eye, i find. Britain now has its own 
> (identified) parietal art - Creswell Crags - can't wait to see this :)
> 
>  
> 
> http://zinken.typepad.com/palaeo/images/ArtChurchHole-1.jpg
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