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Category - FINE PRINTS FROM THE BLANASI COLLECTION
Prints from the Blanasi Collection: Contact us to purchase this item. David & John Blanasi This painting is a freshwater painting but it can be a saltwater painting depending on where it is. It is about all the things in and around the water. Sometimes this billabong is dry for many years and then everything comes when it rains. The two round circles in the painting are the flood stones that you see when it's dry. When it's wet they are all covered over. They are on the edge of the billabong and under water. Sometimes you see them, sometimes you don't. In this painting are two brolga. The brolga eats the water lily and the small fish in the billabong. These are sometimes eaten, when they are fat like the magpie geese. There are two file snakes (jaigung), a big one and small fat one, a nail fish (jailumboorr) with poison spikes like catfish. It has skin and no scales and is good tucker. Three black freshwater bream (narrdoot), three freshwater muscles (gorrook), the little ones have rarrk on them. Two barramundi, an old man and a young one. Most of this painting is Yirritja but if you look closely there are some Dhuwa parts because the artist was finishing some business at the time of the painting.
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