time with a cheer.

     Nigerians studying at American universities are 
sometimes asked to identify spatial relations. Confronted with 
objects in sunshine, they are often unable to indicate in which 
direction shadows will fall, for this involves casting into three-
dimensional perspective. Thus sun, objects, and observer are 
experienced separately and regarded as independent of one 
another. For medieval man, as for the native, space was not 
homogeneous and did not contain  objects. Each thing made its 
own space, as it still does for the native (and equally for the 
modern physicist). Of course this does not mean that native 
artists do not relate things. They often contrive the most 
complicated, sophisticated configurations. Neither artist nor 
observer has the slightest trouble recognizing and interpreting 
the pattern, but only when it is a traditional one. If you begin to