45 DN111
Dennis Nona Airka - For The Rain 2005
Etching Paper: 1000mm x 700mm $725
It's about this dog - it's not a customary belief but it happens. I've experienced this - Airka is for the rain, that's
how it translates. Sometimes on the island when you see the dog, in the hot sun the dog will come. He will lay
on his back in front of you and he'll scratch. Then it just sits under you, it opens its legs and it just lays like this.
Then you know that next week, or three or four days time the rain will come. No clouds but he will tell you that
there is rain coming. So on that particular artwork I've got all these frogs on his tummy. That one, the Umai Umai
is the dog. He will tell you there’s rain coming in two days' time - prepare yourself. I've put the frogs up here
and I did some patterning symbolising the rain. The frogs are tickling the dogs tummy.
Medium: Etching
Edition Size: 45
Printer: David Jones
Studio: Queensland College of Art
Etching Created At: Darwin, NT on July, 2005
Print Published: Brisbane, QLD on March, 2006
Paper: Magnani
Paper Height: 1,000 mm ( 39.4" )
Paper Width: 700 mm ( 27.6" )
Image Height: 900 mm ( 35.4" )
Image Width: 300 mm ( 11.8" )
I.D. : DN111