Women of Castellón

From crispyneurons

A momentous development began thirty thousand years ago, and it led to a new form of symbolic expression. Our ancestors began to paint. Joseph Campbell describes it evocatively:

New technologies, mythological origientations, and vivid art forms now break upon the scene, and we are at the opening of a new age. The bow and arrow have appeared, the hunting dog, and an art of rock painting.

I feel for this era. Like the Cambrian Explosion, and of course like our own time, it is the staggering, explosive dividend following (and resulting from) a long period of nearly imperceptible cumulative and iterative change.

"Women of Castellón," 1999, oil paint and charcoal on paper

This composition, "Women of Castellón", is my way of honoring that profound and ancient revolution.