(the view from the top of Four Knocks Passage Grave, courtesy of George Nash)
Dr Muiris O’Sullivan of University College, Dublin meets George Nash inside Four Knocks Passage Grave, Eire, where they are stared at by a large cartoon-like human face on the wall - a very early example of what we would now call graffiti.
(photograph courtesy of George Nash)
Around it are the hypnotic images of concentric circles and horizontal zigzag lines; images also found across western Europe.
So who was copying who in Neolithic times? And what spiritual meaning do these carvings convey to the Birmingham-based “Aerosol Arabic” artist Mohammed Ali?
These striking zigzag carvings are found on the lintel of the entrance to the Four Knocks Burial Chamber in the Boyne Valley area of Ireland. The design may have represented a family heraldic symbol. It seems to mark a transition point between the known and the unknown world. Photograph courtesy of George Nash.
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