26 DN089
Dennis Nona Gidgidil Colour 2005
Etching (two colours) Paper: 365mm x 300mm $300
I just want to say that people might think that we are a tropical island and we don’t have swamps and all that,
but we do have swamps and we have ducks and yabbies, which is called Kagul in my language. Kagul are those
yabbies - we have them - and we do hunt for them towards the monsoon season. We hunt them on the swamps
but anytime sometimes we go, but mainly monsoon time we go and you just stand in the water and they crawl
up the leg and you catch them. Sometimes they bite you and get people going 'ahh' you know. We have these
ducks that come during monsoon from New Guinea - ducks, geese - that's really a good time also we spend a lot
of time with the swamps at that time. We catch them to eat them - the ducks and geese. Yeah that's just to say
that maybe people think that most of our thing is to do with the sea but we do hunt on the land and we do have
tortoise on the island - all those things, such as porcupines. They exist on the island.
Medium: Etching (two colours)
Edition Size: 99
Printer: Natasha Rowell
Studio: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin
Etching (two colours) Created At: Darwin, NT on September, 2005
Print Published: Darwin, NT on December, 2005
Paper: Hahnemuhle
Paper Height: 365 mm ( 14.4" )
Paper Width: 300 mm ( 11.8" )
Image Height: 190 mm ( 7.5" )
Image Width: 140 mm ( 5.5" )
I.D. : DN089