KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - RAINING SERIES: WARANJAM (THIS IS SYDNEY)

 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE)
RAINING SERIES: WARANJAM (THIS IS SYDNEY),  2023
139 x 198 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Gadi, Eora
Direct from artist, NSWCooee Art, NSW 
 
STORY
ā€�Waranjam is part of the ā€�Raining Seriesā€™ as viewed from my place in bed, whilst pondering Wiyanga (motherhood), Dyin (womanhood) and what itā€™s like to be me. Many Wiyanga feel a stronger connection to Country and Culture after the birth of a child, and for me this piece explores themes of renewal and strength in my Culture, my Blakness and the extraordinary connection I have to my ancestral homelands. As a Gadi, I am the Country and it is me; we share spirit, life and love and this my homage and respect to her.ā€¯"In Gadigal stories we believe that the creator spirit Biame was feminine. She slept laying on her side in the Cumberland plains and awoke to push herself back to create the mountains and pushed out her legs to create our great waterways. When she was done, she perched at Garangal as a Pelican (of the same name) and took flight to Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) to create songline to our brothers and sisters of the Arabana all the way down in South Australia and connect us to mobs in the interior by the breeding cycles of the Pelican."