Gracie Green Austrlain, Kukatja; Wangkajunga, b. 1949
Kartamarti, 2021
acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
77/21
This my country, my painting, my dreaming. This country called Kartamarti, blue tongue lizard was living in this country. They were people in the dreaming, they were there for my...
This my country, my painting, my dreaming. This country called Kartamarti, blue tongue lizard was living in this country. They were people in the dreaming, they were there for my people to hunt. After that dreaming, that country was named Kartamarti meaning ( Big Hat), all the small dots were the sand dunes, and that big dot, that was the waterhole. This story comes from my mother, from her country, this country kartamarti, our dreaming, my mother's dreaming.