Details of With Language

Catalog Number : 25861
Size : 91cm x 60.5cm
Medium : acrylic on linen
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Weaver says "We sit down near that jila (living water). My grandma, my sister, my husband all the uncles, mother, father too all in this country. I been grow up in this one been come young woman."

This painting shows Weaver and her traditional country in the Great Sandy Desert in W.A. near the Percival Lakes and Well 33 of the Canning Stock route. Weaver marks herself on the canvas as the blue t-shaped form and has with her her wonga, (language) which is Yulparija depicted as the circle below her.