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Tjinkuma Wells
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TWE 0029 Stretched on frame |
$540.00 |
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Piltati Tjukurpa
Acrylic on canvas 2009
26x22" / 66x56cm
This painting is a Tjukurrpa story about two sisters who go out hunting. They travel across the country for a long time and eventually their brothers go out to look for them because they think that the sisters didn’t like them and ran away. The brothers turned into Wananpi (water snakes) and hid under the ground, and when the sisters sat down to dig for goannas and large lizards (perentie), the brothers rose out of the ground and swallowed the women.
Tjinkuma is influenced stylistically by Milpatjunany – drawing in the sand, which is a way of passing on traditional knowledge about law and culture as well as about country. Survival meant knowing and understanding every aspect of living off the land and in particular the food and water sources. Visual representation through sand drawings gave clarity to the stories through images. Tjinkuma often uses natural desert colours in her imagery to represent the landscape.
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