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Yolngu Art is a reflection
of the past and allows the individual to find and maintain
a connection with the guiding presence
of the spirit that represents the past, present and future.
Each art work is based upon inherited designs
which originate with ancestral beings who created the land.
Paintings, wood carvings, morning stars
and weavings, however, not only symbolize the interior, sacred
domain, but also
exist directly as a person, spirit, place, colour, song,
dance, ceremony,
season, experience, thought, plant, animal, or sea creature – and
the relationship connecting all these.
In describing the
colours, textures and designs of the land, art works reflect
the creation myths associated with the
ancestors and simultaneously manifest the forces and rhythms
of the environment,
the natural order of things and the energy within the people
who dwell in this ‘country’. |
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