Yathiny, 2024
$385.00
As told by the artist:
This is Yathiny is food for miyapunu (turtle). I learn this dhäwu (story) from my family, but this print is done in my own way. Yathiny floats in the moṉuk (salt water). It comes from the songs of my mother’s people the Rirratjiŋu clan.
The star shapes in this design are the Yathiny, an anenome like colony of single cell organisms known as Porpita porpita which presents as a disc up to 5cm across with fine blue hairlike scillae. This is the food of turtles and a Dhuwa icon. The Rirratjiŋu epic song cycles of the water between Yirrkala and Bremer Island detail the travails of two ancestral Turtle Hunters. The iconography of this tale includes these creatures.
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