Desert with Mummies by Heinz Sterzenbach

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Interesting paintings Heinz

Desert with Mummies, Acrylic Collage, Canvas, 35,4x39,4 inch, 2007. This picture is just ranged like the picture "desert with animal skeletons". A petrified skeleton lies in the foreground, an original horse, a so mentioned a "Odd -toe ungulate", lies also here, which jumped in grey prehistoric time in the subtropical forests of Europe. Four toes at the front runs and three at the hind legs prevented that they sank in soft soil. Right in the picture a mummy sits leaned to one of the numerous stones. The mummy originates from another culture area - from the people of the Ibaloi on the Philippines. Usually the matter is mummified itself tattooed master princes, who were kept in secret rock caves. Besides the mummy of a small child sits and in a scooped out wood base lies likewise the mummy of a child. The mummies originate from a grave cave in Timbac/ Philippines. The life becomes emerging by the camel caravan at the right edge of the picture and the game goose, one of the pinnated "actors", flying over it, who from birth on were fixed to human spare parents, so that they fulfilled the dream of the French film producer Jacques Perrin - to see once the earth with the eyes of the birds, to fly along with the birds on their thousands of kilometers far migrations over seas and continents of our planet. The teams of the Frenchman were world-wide in action - at the soil as in the ultralight aircraft. Perhaps the goose in this picture flew also in the reality over this part of the Libyan desert. They fulfill the dream of many humans in this acryl collage and stand contrary to petrifying which are because of the soil. The form of the pyramid-like collections in the back ground are perhaps the models of Egyptian monumental architecture. Forces of the decomposition out-modelled these rock pyramids from this former plateau. The same applies to the stele like rock material above the animal skeletons. Set up flag stones served the caravan leaders over thousands of years as pinpoi