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KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA (SALT) 2002

MEASUREMENTS

122 by 198 cm

Inscribed 'Dorothy' and bears artist's name, size and catalogue number 7054DN on Gallery Gondwana stamp on the reverse
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

PROVENANCE
Painted in August 2002 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Private collection, Alice Springs Cf. For a similar work painted in the same year included in the artist's retropective see: Dancing Up Country: The Art of Dorothy Napangardi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2002, p.17 This painting is sold with an accompanying Gallery Gondwana certificate that reads; 'This painting depicts a major women's ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist's custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka subsection groups (aunt/niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Casuarina Decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that, rarely filled with water, exist as clay-pans. As water soaks into the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges, becoming delineated by salt. In this striking design of white dotting Dorothy depicts the encrustation of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched with the tracks of the women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories'