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"Walking Together" - Large Ochre Square Platter.
“Walking Together”
This textural piece just invites you to run your hands over this dish. Crafted in the ochre colours of the desert this platter depicts several people walking together with the Hunter.
This is the time when the Elders teach the younger members of the group. They tell them of The Dreaming and the journeys and deeds of creator ancestors. How they made the trees, rocks, waterholes, rivers, and mountains . How their spirits inhabit these features of the natural world today and stars, as well as the animals and plants. The Elders who play such an important role in the community, teach them what is good and what is bad through these stories.
John Beck’s canvases which are my inspiration, is a descendant of the mirrning and murlba people.