ust as I begin writing up this article, I see a post by Tylor on Instagram showing Kaurna digging tools he has just completed – a Katha stick, Karku spade, and Yuku dish – made for his son to play with at the beach. Images show their elegant and purposeful forms sitting atop the pale beach sand, followed by a short video of the digging stick in action. It makes me think about how readily we tend to associate such objects with a historical status in the museum instead of with their everyday functions and continued relevance to lived cultural worlds. There is no reason these objects should appear uncanny. “Hopefully he just doesn’t think about those things and it’s normal, and he knows the
James TYLOR Ever Beyond the Image
Nov 01, 2022
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