Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 14, 2023

I may not know Art, but I know who I like…

Having an existential discussion about reality is amazing for 8 years old children? Unless they are gifted children?

It’s when they have an existential discussion about non-reality the the Sartre effect comes in!

Hey, hot stuff, how’d you like to come over to my cave and see my petroglyphs?

My art skills match those of 40,000 year old cave drawings ….

How are you going to write a dialogue balloon without an alphabet? The first alphabet came along 30,000 years after the cave drawings and language.

Caulfield is trying to nail a vague and unliley to be proven point. Gestures, physical actions, accompanied by sounds that would be inarticulate to us must have existed, But the young lady is correct. Before there can be a criticism, there must be an event to criticize. Neither proves language followed art.

And, so far, neither has considered what eventually became music. A hunter needed a good ear and he either learned to imitate the sounds of prey to entice it or he didn’t eat. Repetition of the sounds over the fire [don’t start] might have entertained while training the young. The same process might have applied to the beginning of camouflage or the imitating of habitat to trap prey.

The key here being the side and after effects of developing survival skills needed in order to continue one’s own existence and that of the beings he/she protected.

Looks like Caulfield’s met his match.

Language isn’t art?

In order to hunt the large game depicted on walks successfully i’d’ve thought some form of communication would be needed. I don’t recall seeing much wall art of small game that a single hunter might get, like rabbits, squirrels, etc.