작품 상세

In this singular work by Malangi are depicted two pairs of creative female spirits. One set is of the Yirritja (Yang - sunset) moiety (his mother's Balmbi-language people) and the other is associated with his own Manyarrngu (people of the mangroves) - they are the Djang'kawu sisters. The two Yirritja Spirit Women came to his mother's land at Yathalamarra and created a spring that fed the two large kidney shaped water holes that exist there today. Yathalamarra is the place of the waterlily flower - the place of the evening star. A low relief sand sculpture of a circle in a square is created in earth or sand, representing this spring and another spring associated with the spirit of the emu. The other women are the wives of the male creative spirit Gurrunirringgu (really Djang'kawu himself). They are the Djang'kawu Sisters and they journeyed along the coast and the mouth of the Glyde River. Story supplied by Djon Mundine.