Certain times of the year you can see the dark shape of an emu among the stars of the Milky way. During wintertime, When you can see the shape of it’s neck and head, you know that emus are ready to start laying their eggs. When you see the large dark patch of its entire body, you know it’s time for the chicks to hatch.
This is the Harding River. I painted this with my grandmother Allery Sandy. She taught me to paint my Country.
Minjurlu is a small melon that grows out in the spinifex and it’s only used to feed the kangaroos, it’s food for the kangaroos. Minjurlu is a food that we do not eat because it’s non-edible. It’s very good for us to know all this; what we can eat and what we cannot eat. It’s a survival thing for animals and for people. For us, minjurlu is out of the question, it’s just for the animals that lives out in the Country.
This plant is the gardangu tree. The gardangu comes from the blue gum tree that comes out in September. This very special tree is produces sugar lolly for us, a crystal lolly, like a toffee. Every year, we collect this, eat and suck it and it cleans out ngarlu (stomach). It is a time and a season that children and families know when it comes and we all go out bush looking for this bush lolly that is called gardangu
My country is alive with wildflowers in season. They carpet the landscape with many colours. These are the Sturt Peas, Mulla Mulla and Yellow Wattle.
These are the beautiful wildflowers that grow in my country. They grow amongst the spinifex and bloom at all different times of the year
I paint my country in my own style. We have so many beautiful flowers that are watered by the rains. The Pilbara is a place of many beautiful colours.
I paint my country in my own style. We have so many beautiful flowers that are watered by the rains. The Pilbara is a place of many beautiful colours.
This in a painting about Yindjibarndi Country. A land full of stories told by old people and handed down to the next generation, to the next generation. This painting is made with designs and patterns shown to me by God. The patterns of the animals and the circles that I do represent healing that formed into the living country. We see our living country in our minds but spoken from out hearts and how old people lived and learned from their parents told to us by our parents.
My country is alive with wildflowers in season. They carpet the landscape with many colours from the red of the sturt peas to the yellow of the acacia bush flowers.