This painting is the representation of the fresh water swimming spots throughout Yindjibarndi country connecting through the country and the green trees surrounding them, providing perfect shade and cooling in the Pilbara heat. The reddish brown is for the dirt that rich and unique to the country. I wanted to capture the beauty through the colours and also in a way that you could recognise the landscape which is the Pilbara.
This is a memory of my childhood growing up this place called Caltex in Roebourne. This is one of the locations that I spent time growing up with a mate. A very popular place for the locals and now today it still it exists as BP. Little bit of changes in the landscape, not the building. The building is still the same. I used to go there after school and chill out there with my mate Paul, son of the owner. Their family tried to steal me and take me to New Zealand which is where they went back home to! In those days, the 50cent hall was getting built which is in the background. Lots of memories here of Roebourne. After cyclone Tracey where everything was underwater, even under the BP. That highway was rebuilt, stacked up. That’s how far the damage come up. As kids we used to jump off the Caltex sign. Today its known as the BP and its famous chips. it’s always been our only shop in town back in the day and still today.
After the rains in the wet season, the waterways are full and the seeds are ready to come up.
These are the Pilbara wildflowers that grow on the ground. They have a beautiful colours blending into the Country during flower season.
In our country, we have many hills of all different shapes and sizes. When driving through country at different times the colours change and some of the hills look like velvet in the evening and morning light .
In our lore and culture we don’t use taping sticks or didgeridoo we sit around in a circle and sing and play our boomerangs also when we go to others places we also take our boomerang with us.
The water snake belonging to the Yinjarbarndi people doesn’t like any noise or certain people like strangers from other places and its bad enemy, the plain kang
The Country Bluebell is one of the common flowers growing on the edges of the river bank and around the edge of hillsides. It also grows in open plains country.
