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'Inside Looking Out' Cave in the Dordogne.
Watercolour 25 x 32 cm © the artist
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Why this feeling of deep mystery upon entering a cavern, the dark spaces
beneath the earth?
In Plato's cavern, the images flickering indistinctly on the walls...
Grotte de Lascaux, Dordogne, circa 23 000 BC
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" So the animals on the walls there are back in the darkness from
which they came and in which they have resided for so long.
We have no word for this darkness, this darkness which is very closely
connected with light. We have no word for this darkness. It is not night
and it is not ignorance.
Maybe from time to time we all cross this darkness. seeing everything
tha we can distinguish from nothing. Maybe it is the interior from which
everything came."
- John Berger
"L'Esprit de la Vallée" Oil. 56 x 76
cm . © Adam Cope.
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One of the Bisons from the Bison Frieze, Font de Gaume, Dordogne, SW
France. Polychrome Partiel Art, late MagdalŽnien
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'Font de Gaume' (detail) Dordogne, Watercolour © Adam Cope
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