My twin sister Latoya and myself have just started painting bush flowers. Our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney shows us the good way.
This is the first time I have ever printed using a lino carving. I did the mwanyen (bush tomato) plant because it is sweet tasting fruit that we find in creek beds after the rain.
Dimensions: 15 x 15 cm Lino Print – Mud Water Brown
Name: Dakota Ngwarraye Petrick
Language: Alyawarre
Community: Ampilatwatja
Biography:
My twin sister Lotoya and I have just started painting, our grandmother Elizabeth Ngwarraye Bonney has been teaching us, she tells us all about the bush Flowers and bush medicine.
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