KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINAMINA DREAMING - MINAMINA JUKURRPA

 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON
MINAMINA DREAMING - MINAMINA JUKURRPA,  2017
180 x 150 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Lajamanu, NT
Cooee Art, Sydney Warnayaka Art and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation, NT 
 
STORY
Minamina is near Lake Mackay. It's main dreaming story is the karrpanu, the digging stick, famously recorded in the Kanakurlangu clan group dreaming songline. Warlpiri call that songline, yupunju. The women travelled eastward into Anmatyerre tribe lands in the Jukurrpa, by being, the sky and earth, night and day women created or gave birth to almost everything bringing them into existence. From raining clouds, waterholes, waterways, everything was danced and sung into existence. Then everything was left to be dug up with the karrpanu so one could feed on the knowledge about everything within the Warlpiri homelands. The ultimate karrpanu is the pointer stars near the Southern Cross stars. When the pointer star touches down in the horizon then the Warlpiri learning cycle begins again.
 
EXHIBITED
Perspective of Country, January 2019, Cooee Art Paddington