a little about me

My name is Iszac Walker. Im 25 years old and a cairns local. I come from the yidinji (Atherton Tablelands and surrounding regions) and Butchulla (Hervey Bay, Fraser Island/K’gari area) groups. It wasn’t until I was 18 that I started exploring properly into my own culture learning from the elders about the old ways. I realised there is so much about Australian Aboriginal Culture and practices that haven’t even been told yet. It is not my place to teach these practices yet as I’m still learning myself but what I can talk about and share is Art and why it was in place. 

Through time Art has always been a fundamental way of human expression. Aboriginal Art is stories of the Dreamtime and a way to teach. Back then, the Dreamtime was the practice of when the Aboriginal people’s would go to sleep at night, they would dream of the days to come. What food they would eat where they would go and what events would happen. They would then express those dreams verbally in ceremonies or in art. When art work was used to teach the young ones. There was an understanding that, in each of the children, there is a part of their parents and their parents again and so forth. All the way back to the first people’s that walked this planet. Today in western science we understand that it is DNA that gets passed down through the generations. DNA holds information. Back then in the old days. The indigenous had the ability to access that stored information as a memory. The symbolism in the art would trigger off the memories of the children’s past generations and that is how we kept our teachings from changing. 

 

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