Background: 21st Century Cave-Painting: On Art, Imagination, Moving Darkness, Moving Light


At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.<span class="su-quote-cite">Roberto Unger</span>


“Cave of Forgotten Dreams” by Werner Herzog (in English, subtitles in Spanish), read the Guardian review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams – review.

Read more about Genevieve von Petzinger’s work at TED Talks, Facebook and about her book The First Signs.

Listen to the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett: Robert Macfarlane – The Hidden Human Depths of the Underland


Paleolithic cave painting of bisons (replica) from the Altamira cave, Cantabria, Spain, painted c. 20,000 years ago (Solutrean). Photo by: Thom Quine. CC BY-SA 2.0