Emma Singer Pitjantjatjara , b. 1986
66 1/8 x 59 7/8 in
Emma Singer is one of the strong emerging painters in Mimili. She works alongside her mother Pauline Wangin, and has collaborated
with her on several paintings. Through the visual language passed from generation to generation, she explores her connection to
manta (country) and Tjukurpa (an ongoing, eternal, life-giving transformative power that accounts for every aspect of existence).
This painting depicts the kapi tjukula (water holes), murpu and apu (mountains and rocks), tali (sand hills) and punu (trees) that
surround Emma's home of Mimili Community. Mimili has many ancestral songlines that criss-cross the land. A really important place
for Anangu from Mimili is Antara, a cermeonial site on top of a hill. This is a place for inma (ceremonial song and dance) relating to
the Maku (witchetty grub) Tjukurpa.