44 DN110
Dennis Nona Kanara - Death Adder 2005
Etching Paper 700mm x 1000mm $800
Kanara is a death adder - snake. There's a customary belief when you kill the snake or you see it dead - mostly
on the island, on Badu. The elder people will take it down to the beach and bury it horizontally across the beach,
or parallel, that way. It is the customary belief that it will grow the beach longer or in language it's called, Surum
- to make the sandbank bigger on the island to prevent erosion. That practice was kind of a protection or belief
that the snake would protect the sand from eroding and it would attract more sand on to the beach which makes
the beach bigger and longer. That particular snake is buried everywhere on the island but mainly on the beach.
Kanara is the death adder, the poisonous one.
Medium: Etching
Edition Size: 45
Printed: David Jones
Studio: Queensland College of Art
Etching Created At: Brisbane, QLD on September, 2005
Print Published: Brisbane, QLD on April, 2005
Paper: Magnani
Paper Height: 700 mm ( 27.6" )
Paper Width: 1,000 mm ( 39.4" )
Image Height:315 mm ( 12.4" )
Image Width: 895 mm ( 35.2" )
I.D. : DN110