Artwork Description

"My country is behind Ninyilki, this is where I was born on a saltpan under the ti-trees. You can see Sweers Island from here. My father, King Alfred, was dragging grass across the sea with his other wives, to catch fish. He didn't know I was coming. It was my aunty who ran to let my father know. My grandmother delivered me, she was the one that cut my chord with a special shell. They thought I would be a boy because I was so big in my mother's tummy. My father put me in a coolaman and carried me all the way to Oak Tree Point, a better place to camp. It was a long way to walk all that way carrying me."

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Acrylic on canvas

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Tags#Aboriginal, # Mornington Island, # Bentinck Island

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All art by Amy Loogatha

Red oval and rectangular shapes on blue canvasRed dominant color sweeping from top of canvas like sand dune on to a mangrove salt pan.
Greenery at bottom of art workTextured colours of red and orange and white blending into each other.
Similar to that of a clay salt pan.
With a touch of blue forming a pool at the left hand corner of the painting.The entire work is painted in ocher colors of res,yellow ,white and pink. There is a river of white that streams from the top to the midway point which seems to have melded with the ocher colors, giving the impression that rains have just fallen on the land creating a fusion of colors.
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