ARCHETYPAL NARRATIVE
The visual arts has a metaphoric language that carries layers of stories. Stories can be personal, cultural and archetypal
These Karrinyarra paintings are of an archetypal nature and belong to the great collective memory
Here the stories provide living myth and meaning for countless generations
The Sacred Circles hold a story that has belonged to all people
Circles elude to the cycles of the sun and moon and the elements and life shaped by seasons
For 2012 man; these metaphors still hold enduring and sustainable relevance
Ilpili Ada and Emily Andy Napaltjarri's 2007
Site: Rock Hole with water: on eastern edge of Ilpili
Story: Wrong skin Tjakamarra sitting over by the hill watching two women; daughter Nupurrula and daughter-in-law Napananga, sitting there by this water hole.
They got up then and walked to a site north of Alice Springs.
Moral of the story: Tjakamarra can only look to Napaltjarri as right skin for liaison
Rock Hole with Ptroglyphs on eastern edge of Ilpili
- Karrinyarra Ptroglyphs 17,000-30,000 years old.
