Artiste : Noli Rictor

Titre de l'œuvre : Mulpulya

Format : 230 × 200 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène du Spinifex Art Project

Référence de cette peinture : 25-290

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Noli has depicted the significant site of Mulpulya situated in the north of traditional Spinifex lands. This site in particular intersects the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) and Tjintir -Tjintirpa Tjukurpa (Willie Wagtail Creation Line). Wati Kutjara is an epic narrative following the movement of a father and son water serpent who traverse the Spinifex Lands on ceremonial business.

Mulpulya has two water sources, as Noli has depicted and also holds the religious narrative that follows the unfolding events of Minyma Tjintir-Tjintirpa (Willy Wagtail Woman), whose name is Yina, as she traverses the surrounding terrain, leaving behind the drama in the physical realm at this site and to the south east at Tjintirkara. Noli recalls drinking from this site as a young boy living in Spinifex with his family.

This arid but spiritual environment was the birthplace of the creation beings who shaped the landscape as they moved through it, leaving indelible physical reminders of their power and presence in the form of creeks or rocky ridges or a type of tree. But mostly they left their place of abode: the life giving sought after source of precious water in some form of catchment. This water source is the embodiment of survival within the remote desert extremes with the sites being venerated as such and usually guarded by powerful beings who readily shifted through the realms. These are the characters who dramatised the landscape and gave rise to the physical formations through their movements. They left behind an intricate mapped moral landscape that holds the elaborate oral religion of song and performance that still permeates Noli's daily life.