001 - South African art
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Poet and Fios was created by Carol Nell in the same year as those Blondbos finds. It's made out of two almost identically sized sections of red and white ochre. The pebble is three metres long, probably about a metre tall and kind of varying depth so it's nearly a ton in weight. And how do you get that? How did we get it? Here. Luckily it was conveniently broken, so it came in two boxes but there were still giant pieces of rock. I think people will respond to it in a very special way with these very ancient objects surrounding it. Now wow, that was a lot of information, that was an amazing
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