Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Big Hand for the Oils?

Tari, Vince fstariv1@nmhg.com
Mon, 27 May 2002 19:58:13 -0500


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate Adams [mailto:kate@dnki.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2002 10:42 AM
> To: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Big Hand for the Oils?
> 
> 
> Hand print "logos" as it were are as old as humans and 
> pigments.  They are 
> seen in both simple and stylized fashion in the Aboriginal 
> art of every 
> human culture with the geology to protect them for tens of 
> thousands of 
> years.   They are a universal "I was here" and were often used as the 
> artist's "signature" in the days before humankind invented 
> abstract writing 
> systems.
> 
> So while the Oils are apparently not trying to make a 
> statement with the 
> sprint hand, they are being very basically human in using it.

The "Stop Jabiluka Mine" protest (which the Oils have actively involved with
over the years) logo includes a big hand in front of a nuclear sign. 
I wonder whether they came up with this before or after PG's involvement
with the protest ?

vince

 


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