Sabrina Robertson depicts the Dream of Water linked to the sacred site of Pirlinyarnu. In the Dreamtime, two rainmaker ancestors from the Jangala family called down rain with their songs and unleashed an enormous storm. The storm moved along various clan territories. It was then seized by a brown hawk ancestor (kirrkarlanji) who let it rain down on Pirlinyarnu, where a very large marsh (maluri) formed. This marsh still exists today and when it rains, hundreds of ducks (ngapangarla) gather there.
The concentric circles here represent waterholes and the Pirlinyarnu marsh; the undulating lines represent the power of the run-off from the torrential rains on the ochre-coloured hillsides. For the Warlpiri, the many tiny lines within these lines symbolise the clouds that formed in the sky before the storm.
Sabrina Robertson NANGALA
Ngapa Jukurrpa - Pirlinyarnu (Water dreaming) , 2018
Art : Aboriginal
Origine : Yuendumu
Dimensions : 91 x 183 x 3 cm
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
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N° : 4010

