Raised perspectives
Details of the rock art station 'Vente Bourbon 3' found by D. Caldwell (published 2015) - one of many important new stations found in the forest of Fontainebleau.
A rock art detail is here presented as a flat template (left), abstracted into line (centre left) and then 'extruded' and reperceived as a simple stage (centre right); for activities such as dance (right) and other post Celtic and early medieval rural activities that may align to solstice, full moon and other calendar and social justifications. Here each dot is a space for an individual with the representation of a stage that is large enough for 12 people at any one time. Here the activity was 'remembered' or 'envisaged' within a rock art station. Fontainebleau is far from the growing urban influences of Paris and Orléans and perhaps deep in its scrublands, ancient and illiterate ways lasted longest in a world where the scale and approximate graphology of writing was common knowledge.
Having two sets of steps leading up to the stage would allow for greater numbers of people to rise to elevation for as one group leaves, others arrive, without problems of passing. Dispute over the starting square or numbers allowed on the stage are also reduced by the simple grid.
AJM 29.03.20
The traditional dancers were based on a number of initial public domain images.
Raised perspectives
Details of the rock art station 'Vente Bourbon 3' found by D. Caldwell (published 2015) - one of many important new stations found in the forest of Fontainebleau.
A rock art detail is here presented as a flat template (left), abstracted into line (centre left) and then 'extruded' and reperceived as a simple stage (centre right); for activities such as dance (right) and other post Celtic and early medieval rural activities that may align to solstice, full moon and other calendar and social justifications. Here each dot is a space for an individual with the representation of a stage that is large enough for 12 people at any one time. Here the activity was 'remembered' or 'envisaged' within a rock art station. Fontainebleau is far from the growing urban influences of Paris and Orléans and perhaps deep in its scrublands, ancient and illiterate ways lasted longest in a world where the scale and approximate graphology of writing was common knowledge.
Having two sets of steps leading up to the stage would allow for greater numbers of people to rise to elevation for as one group leaves, others arrive, without problems of passing. Dispute over the starting square or numbers allowed on the stage are also reduced by the simple grid.
AJM 29.03.20
The traditional dancers were based on a number of initial public domain images.