Seed Dreaming – Patanjarngi Kangaroo Food

Seed Dreaming –  Patanjarngi (Slender Pigweed)

Kangaroo Food
This artwork is about the seeds kangaroos ate.  People also ate this food.
Patanjarngi (Slender Pigweed) is a plant that has the water. The flowers stand straight up and is broad. It has a fluffy flower which is red or grey. Animals like cows, camels, kangaroos and turkeys eat this flower. The animals eat this flower because it contains the water inside. That’s how the bush native animals survive in the desert.

$190.00

1 in stock

Medium: Painting
400x300mm Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
Year: 2021
SKU: 297-21

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Seed Dreaming –  Patanjarngi (Slender Pigweed)

Kangaroo Food
This artwork is about the seeds kangaroos ate.  People also ate this food.
Patanjarngi (Slender Pigweed) is a plant that has the water. The flowers stand straight up and is broad. It has a fluffy flower which is red or grey. Animals like cows, camels, kangaroos and turkeys eat this flower. The animals eat this flower because it contains the water inside. That’s how the bush native animals survive in the desert.

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Weight 0.8 kg

About Mercia Napurrurla Lewis

Mercia has painted at the art centre since 2009 when she lived in Lajamanu.  Since then she now lives in Katherine but always visits family.  When Mercia is here she paints at the art centre.  Mercia paints the traditional stories or body of knowledge for Napurrurla skin.  Diamond doves, snakes, seeds and the harvesting of grain and about where her family comes from – her country.  Her art work is in the tradition of the central desert region of dots. 

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