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Rosalind Langford Weaving Yorta Yorta Country 2011
Acrylic on Berge linen 1805 x 1300mm SOLD
In stillness, I breathe in the colours of my mother?s country; I am once again at peace and healed.

Weaving Yorta Yorta Country is a reflection of my childhood memories. The ever changing colours, different hues of the
land, its rivers and plants can be seen in my mother?s country.

As a child living with my family on the banks of the Goulbourn River in Victoria, in a small ramshackle hut within an
Aboriginal community. I would spend time drawing and colouring plants that I had seen onto hessian bags. My father
would collect and hang in our hut hessian bags to try and keep out the winter winds that managed to find ways to enter our
hut and chill the bone. My mother would often say that the colours I drew on the hessian helped to bring the outside sunshine
inside.

My drawings often were a way for me to escape into a fairyland of colour and made my room a beautiful place to be at
peace in. My hessian wall reflected the rhythm, movement, and the ever changing yet always interlocking layers of old and
new colours of nature that could be seen in the land. Each new season where Mother Nature would brings forth new
colours, yet the old seasons colours were still woven tightly together underneath the new season?s colours. Bringing forth a
new landscape to teach, to feed, to heal, and for us to be at peace.

I have painted my Weaving Yorta Yorta Country painting in a hessian weaving style of 3 layers that represents a woven
Yorta Yorta landscape and a reflection of my childhood hessian painted fairyland room. It represents the essence of my
childhood and my Yorta Yorta identity.