Bower's Museum Show: Sanxingdui

Class was seated nearabout the Chapel...sketch is of the Glacier Point Wall, kinda seen on edge...and is a study of how a Ponderosa Pine Tree's branches angled upwards towards the top and downwards towards the bottom...sunny clear blue...after Denny's, rolled over to Bower's Museum to see the Sanxingdui show...I just looked at a blogger's post about Praying Mantises, and left a comment about how Mantises have the prototypical alien space eyes...and at the Sanxingdui show, the promoters promote that the bronzes are maybe of aliens!...they do have the Mantis eyes!...oh!...sitting on a bench, contemplating, while a guide talked to a tour of old folk, I was reminded of the bicameral theory...and here going after a pic, I find mention of just that!...

from wiki
Another scholar ^[20] compares these "bulging-eyed, big-eared bronze heads and masks" with "eye-idols" (effigies with large eyes and open mouths designed to induce hallucinations) in Julian Jaynes's bicameral hypothesis; and ^[21] proposes, "It is possible that southern Chinese personators wore these hypnotic bronze masks, recursively representing the spirit of a dead ancestor with a mask that represents a face disguised by a mask."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanxingdui

I saw a show of Mari culture once in LA Museum, idols with big eyes,
 and had a remarkable nightmare...I'm thinking about dreams, as I had a remarkable one last night!...two large Walls of large jagged granite stones loosely joined together, so loose that in the gaps Hawks were perching on the stones, first just a couple, then lots, then Mountain Sheep, more Hawks, and I had the thought, 'how about Bats', and then Bats!, and the Walls were floating in the sky, slowly descending...if one asks here, 'how can there possibly be such Walls, daviddavid?'...I'd answer, go to Outland, do the Netherwing quests!...

...but, but there must be something to this bicameral notion, which suggest there are other realms of consciousness, just like our everyday consciousness of our surroundings, and the ancients knew how to get to them...and the bridge to them was their art...which makes me wonder if modern artists instinctively feel that they can make bridges of this sort, but have lost the magic, the alchemy of it...for the ancients, going from one consciousness to the other must have been as easy for them as our going out of the busy city day into a dark movie theater, or after watching the news, reading emails, and such, logging into WOW...:)



It is really a fantastic show, a must see!