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.Roberto Unger


“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