Stik • Caveman , by Jules Leotard on Jul 28, 2022 6:29:32 GMT 1,

Jul 28, 2022 6:10:33 GMT 1 @phlegyas said:

To be fair, its a painting in a cave (part of an ancient red ochre mine), with the consent of the cave owners. Its not like hes walked into a nature reserve or SSSI and painted the rock formations.

Also, Its basically a shout back to the hand prints and paintings in red ochre that were made by people that lived millennia ago. Which er, are still there. So yes, it should last a while unless they remove it.

I think it is interesting.  I might just be in a mood, but it strikes me as odd (at the moment) that someone 'owns' a cave and permission would be necessary.  I would guess that 99.99% of all cave 'owners' don't go in their caves.  I'm picturing an old bloke coming into the house ranting to his bippy that someone has up and graff'ed the cave over the weekend and that he is tired of cleaning it up.  Last straw and he is going to close up the cave somehow.  There should be a whole movement of cave art documenting how things are now.  At some point in the future, when we've destroyed the planet and glaciation strips all our 'progress' from the land, if something arises at least our cave art will hint that we were all here.

There are a lot of caves on the planet.  You would probably take bigger issue with what we put in many of them.  I think I wrote a post last year hoping that B would do an obscure trail of images along the Cheddar Gorge or some such to be found in the future.  The crescendo would be in a large chamber where he would create his "Last Supper."

Jul 28, 2022 6:10:33 GMT 1 @phlegyas said:

To be fair, its a painting in a cave (part of an ancient red ochre mine), with the consent of the cave owners. Its not like hes walked into a nature reserve or SSSI and painted the rock formations.

Also, Its basically a shout back to the hand prints and paintings in red ochre that were made by people that lived millennia ago. Which er, are still there. So yes, it should last a while unless they remove it.

I think it is interesting.  I might just be in a mood, but it strikes me as odd (at the moment) that someone 'owns' a cave and permission would be necessary.  I would guess that 99.99% of all cave 'owners' don't go in their caves.  I'm picturing an old bloke coming into the house ranting to his bippy that someone has up and graff'ed the cave over the weekend and that he is tired of cleaning it up.  Last straw and he is going to close up the cave somehow.  There should be a whole movement of cave art documenting how things are now.  At some point in the future, when we've destroyed the planet and glaciation strips all our 'progress' from the land, if something arises at least our cave art will hint that we were all here.

There are a lot of caves on the planet.  You would probably take bigger issue with what we put in many of them.  I think I wrote a post last year hoping that B would do an obscure trail of images along the Cheddar Gorge or some such to be found in the future.  The crescendo would be in a large chamber where he would create his "Last Supper."