Tex pondered a while and then said, 'We don't have a word for knowledge.'
I looked at him disbelieving. Struggling to find the words he said, 'Our land is our knowledge, we walk on the knowledge, we dwell in the knowledge, we live in our thesaurus, we walk in our Bible every day of our lives. Everything is knowledge; We don't need a word for knowledge, I guess. Maybe that's why.'
Tex Scuthorpe is an aboriginal artist and consultant of the Noonghaburra community from western New South Wales in Australia.
I had met him at a conference where he and his partner Anne was teaching managers from Fosters Breweries how to tell the story of their future with the means of painting. In their brochure Anne and Tex tell that they consult in knowledge management.
'So how would you paint knowledge management?', I challe