Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa, 190-19

The painting depicts designs connected to Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a sacred site northwest of the Aboriginal Community of Kintore in the Central Western Desert of Australia. The tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony to invoke the elements. It is a powerful storm bringing on the lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending its deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling rock holes, clay pans and creeks. It has the power to create new life and growth upon the land. There is a lightning strike at this place.

In this tjukurrpa the angular shapes represent the dryness of the kapi tjukitji (waterhole). Alice talks of having no spring water in this site. The arrow shapes represent the footprints of the white heron that frequent the site. The custodians for this tjukurrpa are Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Naparula and Tjaparulla skin subsections.

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Alice was born in in the Derwent Creek bed near Papunya. She has three children and worked at the school a long time ago. Her husband was Jimmy Japanangka who passed away many years ago and her mother was Pilari Naparrula. These days Alice lives in Papunya with her two sisters, who are also artists, Maureen and Glenda. Similarly to her sisters, Alice is a determined artist who is at the Papunya Tjupi Art Centre daily. Alice says she is now painting her dreaming story about the two Napanangka Women.