LILY HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI

Duck Ponds Dreaming
180cm x 150cm
Acrylic on canvas

This work is of a place at Duck Ponds or Kurlungalinpa area.

The long shapes are wood of live trees and the oval sometimes curved shapes are laju (witchetty grubs) which are in the lower wood of these trees. Tucked in unobvious places are women hunting down these tasty insects.  These women are represented by a “U” shape and are really, in this work in a ceremony.

The dots represent the grasses and bushes present in the landscape and the clear areas again countryside which could be covered in water during the wet season.

Duck Ponds is a sacred site situated 100kms south-east of Lajamanu. The area becomes rich in water and bird life with the onset of rain.

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