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48 DN115
Dennis Nona Ker Ker - Mountain Bush Ginger 2006
Linocut Paper 1210 mm x 800 mm $1350
Kerr Kerr is a medicinal plant used to heal sick babies. The juice from ginger plants, collected from mountaintops
on Badu Island, is squeezed into a container shell (Alup). The healing ointment is applied to babies' skin who
are weak from a cold or who have a tropical skin disease (Zurr), usually between the months of September and
October. This treatment was practiced a long time ago in the Western Torres Strait islands and was passed
down to me by elder James Eseli. If it is applied once a day for few days, the baby will be cured. Often my
ancestors visit me in a dream and inspire me to take a new technical approach. In this work the application of the
treatment and the baby's back are compressed into one image. The swirling patterns (Minnor) at the bottom
represent the continued rubbing action, while the diamond patterning in the top half marks the disease on the
babies skin. The middle shows the activity of the disease, moving under the skin.
Medium: Linocut
Edition Size: 45
Printer: David Jones
Studio: Queensland College of Art
Linocut Created At: Brisbane, QLD on February, 2006
Print Published: Brisbane, QLD on March, 2006
Paper: Magnani
Paper Height: 1,210 mm ( 47.6" )
Paper Width: 800 mm ( 31.5" )
Image Height: 1,120 mm ( 44.1" )
Image Width: 670 mm ( 26.4" )
I.D. : DN115