Cultural Lands on Kaytej Country
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Dimensions: 1220cm x 1530cm
Primed canvas
Medium: Acrylic mixed with ochre
Painting is an original one off piece.
Signed by the artist.
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Painting describes our Kaytej country located in Central Australia Northern Territory.
The story has in the top left corner an image of a lightning man, his job is to create a storm featuring lightning and thunder as the country is coming out of a long drought period in preparation for heavy rains.
The two lady figures on top right represented as spiritual figures that travel across the NT through to South Australia, their presence here is guiding the importance of their journey and overseeing the caring of sacred lands, guiding present day Aboriginal people to effectively regenerate the country.
Small circles mixed with large ones depict our clan groups scattered across the region of our kaytej people, sites like meeting places, soakages (water beneath the surface), represent groups that are very closely related and share the ceremonial songlines, and other important Lore matters to do with managing the country.
The large middle circle represents rain traveling across the lands and this curtain of rain hides the rainbow serpent. He uses the curtain of rain to hide himself and Aboriginal people are very familiar with the serpent visiting different regions.
The patchy white, blue and brown odd shapes on the outer from the large circle represents where water lies during rainy weather and is the main waterholes (permanent) and usually holds water for long periods. These are culturally important for our people when looking after a country, plants and animals.
The image of the tribal man in the low left hand corner represents our warrior’s silhouette standing on a hill watching out for intruders, he holds a shield and spear in full traditional image and the 4 circles are in the sandhill country of the Kaytej people.
The right hand bottom corner is the emu in the milky=way and is more visible in the desert sky over the cooler months, the emu is our mother’s totem and cannot be hunted for food by the Rtwerrpe people.
The patches represent how our land is culturally mapped out, each smaller circle is linked with trails, these pathways are used when meeting up, holding ceremonies, traveling of families, basically a traditional highway, and these links also indicate where to find food, water and to provide safe travel.
