EXPULSION FROM PARADISE

Art has many important functions; it also needs to focus our awareness and remind us that indigenous people of our world have been globally prosecuted, decimated through genocide, dispossessed of their land, forced to abandon their ancestral believe systems, adopt alien religious concepts, and forced into slavery, and are still immensely suffering. The remnants of their cultures are only being studied now.

This work intends to show the devastating avalanche of the so called superior, technologically advanced cultures and their immoral, pretentious and hypocritical concepts crushing onto indigenous people, from which they could not and never will be able to escape. These people have been marked as primitive savages until recently, when a minority of ethnologists and anthropologists have started telling us otherwise.

I believe that art has not yet addressed these crimes sufficiently. The “admired” Captain Cook e.g. when he discovered Australia, did not acknowledge the existence of aboriginal people as being human, hence describing Australia as “terra nullius” (nobody’s country), with devastating consequences mainly for the aborigines people but also for the occupying settlers, which became clear much later!