Two brothers leave home to go hunting, they spend a lot of time apart, one goes one way, the other goes the other way. When they see each other again they don’t know each other, and they say ‘hey who are who?’. This is a story my grandfather told me.
Name: Freddy Ken
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Community: Ernabella (Pukatja)
Biography:
When I was a young bloke I was working with cattle doing fencing, cattle pens, sometimes building houses, pipelines, working on the roads building the highway. I was working with dynamite and it was dangerous. I used to ride horses and sometimes bulls at the bronco rides.
I started painting in Amata. Then I went out working in land management, looking after the country. Now I’ve come back to Ernabella to be with family and I’m painting again. I paint a lot of stories, lots of dancing. My father and my grandfather told me lots of stories, for a long time we have no TV. My country is sandhill country, it’s good country, little bit rough.
My feeling is when the picture comes I have to paint it. These are stories from my memory, and from memory come pictures.
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