Papunya Tjupi Arts

6 AM 6435/09
Ena Lane Napangardi Lupul - Ena's Father's Country 2009
Acrylic on Belgian linen 1220 x 710mm SOLD
This painting tells the Dreamtime story of the Rainbow Serpent Ancestors travelling across the country to
Lupul, bringing with them a great electrical storm. The lines represent the lightning. The U shapes are people.
The circles are waterholes. Aboriginal people believe the Creation or Dreamtime is the beginning of
‘knowledge’, when the laws of existence were put together. It is also the beginning of time when the
supernatural Ancestral beings were born out of their own eternity. It is said the Ancestors moved across the
then barren surface of the world, hunting and fighting. They changed the form of the land creating the
mountains, rivers, trees, plains, water holes and sand hills. The Ancestors were honoured by Aboriginal people
in corroborees performed at sacred sites where the spirit of the Ancestors had become part of the landscape, or