NGV - Australian Art (1)

From Federation Square and the NGV on Indigenous art

The National Gallery of Victoria has 2 museums in Melbourne. Yesterday I visited the smaller one, on Australian Art, situated on the famous Federal Square.
Through a foundation, they have been encouraging and recording indigenous art for a few decades and show an interesting collection of paintings and sculptures. What I found most interesting though was a series of video interviews with some artists.
About artistic and mystical sensibilities (very approximate transcription): "I have been taught by my father who had magical powers. I also have magical powers. (...) I thought about it for a month and the subject became part of me. Then I made a painting. (...) Some subject may not be painted. They are dangerous."
I think he was talking about how some thoughts can drive you crazy as they confront you with impossibilities or with themes that are so huge that your mind cannot grasp them. Frightening.
Max, a retired professor in Philosophy, has written a book on Indigenous (Aboriginal) religions and is trying to explain some of it to me.
Maybe that is the strangeness of this art, that it entwines the religious thought so tightly.
We are not used to that kind of intensity.
(the NGV has a permanent collection of Indigenous art on show and is now also hosting a temporary exhibition)