Are new kinds of emerging from urban culture, urban artists?
Jeff Samuels: Well, the symbols are things that we both see all the time, and understand. Now, those symbols have replaced those traditional symbols so they are part of people’s life. So, they use those symbols to create an image. With traditional culture are those images that have been passed down from generation to generation, and they have not been destroyed. So, their practice has been kept on, so they know how to do that. Those symbols that urban Aboriginal artists use is what they see all the time in their environment, so they use those symbols to portray something. © Jeff Samuels, 1989. Transcript of paper presented at The First Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1989.
