Wanampi Tjukurrpa – Snake Dreaming
Artist
Size
30 × 30 cm Acrylic on Linen (pre-stretched)
Catalog no.
20-fm156
Category
Description
as told by Francis Marshall: My father’s father’s Dreaming, my grandfather. We go there, Pikilily Top Springs west of Yuendumu out there. It’s still there, a scary place. The snake Dreaming my father told me about this Dreaming. You see the water hole and trees blowing big snake did put concert on my grandfathers and burried his spirit there. He is still there that’s why I paint this dreaming to call him up. My grandfathers spirit talk me, he talk me to paint when I was a little boy. My grandfather spirit come to me talk to me about this place. Pikilily Top Springs, snake dreaming, sacred place.
“My father’s father’s Dreaming, my grandfather. We go there, Pikilily Top Springs west of Yuendumu out there. It’s still there, a scary place. The snake Dreaming my father told me about this Dreaming. You see the water hole and trees blowing big snake did put concert on my grandfathers and buried his spirit there. He is still there that’s why I paint this dreaming to call him up. My grandfathers spirit talk me, he talk me to paint when I was a little boy. My grandfather spirit come to me talk to me about this place. Pikilily Top Springs, snake dreaming, sacred place.”
“Going and talking country, when the wind blows I feel that spirit, it makes me happy – that’s why I’m painting on canvas, it makes me happy”.