Lloyd Kwilla Wangkatjungka, b. 1980
55 1/8 x 39 3/8 in
Lush and soft colours, heavily overdotted in soft whites, characterise this multi-layered ochre depicting the Jumuwarnti or Many Waterholes of Lloyd Kwilla’s Great Sandy desert Kimberley region. To western eyes it may seem to be an aerial perspective of the lands, but is in fact, a depiction of `mind maps’ of the ancestral tracks that link waterholes and ceremonial sites. Waterholes are depicted as circular roundels, with windbreaks and meeting places shown as the curved arcs around them. Ancestral tracks and underground water linkages are shown as subtle lines under the surface of the heavy ochre, fading until disappearing entirely as though into the earth itself.
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