Spanning vast seas and deep time, Pacific and Oceanian arts carry ancestral memory through land, water, and sky. From Aboriginal Australia’s Dreamtime paintings to Polynesian tattoos and tapa cloths, these traditions encode identity, cosmology, and kinship in every mark and material. Carved shields, barkcloth, quilted motifs, and oceanic navigation charts express a shared reverence for ancestors, nature, and the sacred. This inclusive regional heritage—rooted in oral tradition, ecological harmony, and communal craft—connects islanders and coastal peoples across thousands of miles, offering the world a living vision of resilience, creativity, and spiritual belonging.