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Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

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Wind
We call the wind Gobi Gobi. We believe that the winds bring many things into our lives. It can influence the way we feel and even how we act at times. There is a Dreamtime story in my Country about a Clever Man that had power over the wind . One day a special shell was stolen from him and he was so angry that he called to the wind to come from all directions. The wind blew for many days and his people asked him to stop, because they couldn't fish nor hunt in the waters of Quandamooka but his anger was so great he could not. After many days of these wind blowing, it caused Minjerribah to seperate from Moorgumpin.

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Stretched and ready to hang

This artwork is currently stretched and ready to hang.

It comes with an external frame.

Framed dimensions - 46.0(W) x 46.0(H).

Artwork dimensions - 46.0(W) x 46.0(H).

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All art by Bruce Borey

This painting symbolises the right of passage For thousand of years in winter my people have hunted the Yungun in a sustainable way. Both for them and for us. Each year after the summer rains, silt washes out into Deception Bay from the Mary River into Butchulla country near K'gari. The silt covers the sea grass beds of  K'gari and the Yungun sourse of food is covered with this silt. The Yungun swim south into my Country,  Quandamooka . This painting tells this storey.  In the  centre is the Mary River, and what we call Yungun (dugong) grass which  the Yungun feed on as the weather gets cooler.  My people will watch the beaches and the sea for this grass and once it is seen wash up on the beach or floating on the surface of the water,  we know they are in our Country and feeding. The signs that our Country gives us tell us all we need to know about what is happing with the animals and environment within our Country. The other images are images of other animals and food  that comes to us as a gift from our Sea Country such as Binging the turtle, Ugurie a shellfish and the many different types of fish that visit us in these cooler months. After the Yungun have spent the winter in our country they will head north, back to K'gari and Butchulla Country. The silt would have turned the sea beds of K'gari into a lush feeding grounds for them.   
Around the edges of the painting are the trees in flower and the seasons changing. On the upper left, the yellow ochre trails are the Jabams on the move. The vertical lines are their traveling lines in the different seasons.. The three circles represent the three main trees that they live in with one Jabam entering the tree and one coming out of the tree. The five squares are  the Bora (Jabams gathering ). The seven horizontal Jabama represent  the Southern Cross and below them, the full moon in that season. To the lower right of the painting is 'Men's Business' and above it is,  'Woman's Business'. Next is the Bora trail line and tree blossoms . The far right of the painting represents what we call 'Secret Business'. The poem
Grandfather Willy McKenzie his smiling face a pleasure to behold.  
A robust man in his ageing years full of Aboriginal lore
Seen often on the football field
Teaching the children the boomerang throw
Children sat around in awe when told of our folklore
He taught them the different corroborees
Of the days long long ago.

Told them of his wanderings, Aboriginal words and meanings
And of nature's way in this great land of ours
Grandfather McKenzie with the children brought joy to one and all
This learned man in cultural ways
Lover of children and his fellow man
Teacher, Story Teller and a Childs Best Friend.
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