The Mark ran Feb 17th - April 5, 2025 at Intersect Arts Center
Thousands of years ago, human beings went deep into a cave in Indonesia. Using earthy red pigments, they made expressive marks on the walls of the cave, carefully depicting three human-bird type characters surrounding a large pig. Using simple colors and marks that now seem distant , these humans told a story, recording something important they wanted to mark, to remember, to celebrate, to see. A phenomenon not isolated to a singular Indonesian cave, this kind of mark-making appears in ancient spaces all over the world. In southern France a stampede of animals dance across rock walls. In Egypt figures swim through some prehistoric lake now only desert. We see realistically rendered buffalo in Spain, abstracted cattle in Somaliland, a multicolored rave in northern Australia. In Argentina a throng of stenciled human hands reaches out across 9,825 years; in those marks spray painted through bone pipes we see our own humanity, not so distant. This
