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Fine Organic Cotton Voile, relaxed fit shirt with
shell buttons. Plastic Free, including packaging.
This is a
teaching painting, describing a dry season in Damien’s homeland, Mount Liebig,
in the Northern Territory. It illustrates aspects of landscape and culture that
was told to Damien by his great-grandparents. Women sit with children
collecting bush potatoes (the red shapes at the top of the painting) and are
preparing for inma (ceremony). One man, wati, sits down with his waru (spear).
Controlled burnings are taking place as the spinifex is dry, and this means
good fruits can grow. The small star-like symbols represent women’s body paint
that the women paint on each other for inma. A dry creekbed runs through the
painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the claypans, dried
rockholes (tjukula), and sandhills (tali).