The Science-Art Centre

The above afterthought by the author considering the importance of Aboriginal myths is relevant to the development of Robert Pope's Creative Physics paper published some 18 months before the similar Creative Physics paper by the molecular biologist in America, Dr George Ainsworth-Land.

Pope's extensive research into the relevance of Australian Indigenous artwork was such that he considered that their Dreamtime intuitions were related to the necessity of locating water and tracking animals for food within an arid Australian environment. He wrote that this artistic intuition belonged to a human survival science, superior to the agressive tribal science of Western civilisation. This appeared to be important as it belonged to the World's oldest living tribe, suggesting it had a fundamental bearing on the human evolutionary process.

During the 21st Century Pope's Science-Art Research Centre, in collaboration with the Indigenous Artist Elder, Roger 'Bushfire' Saunders, with the help of Dr Katherine Doyle, Linguistic Literature, began research into the ability of Indigenous artists to paint 3D stereoscopic images into their paintings.