Lovely linkage of heartbreaks from down under, these two canvases were painted by Pitjantjatjara women in the community of Amata (near Uluru) who heard about the massacre of Muslims in Christchurch. One was given to an Islamic community in Adelaide, the other sent to New Zealand. This is Nyunmiti Burton, whose idea it was. "For us when we lose someone, we go to the families and we go to the communities and we grieve, and we grieve and we grieve," Ms Burton told the ABC through an interpreter." Many Aboriginal paintings live in the strange habitat of the international art market, but these seem connected to original life of these motifs in the ritual lives of anangu communities. Thursday, May 30, 2019
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Lovely linkage of heartbreaks from down under, these two canvases were painted by Pitjantjatjara women in the community of Amata (near Uluru) who heard about the massacre of Muslims in Christchurch. One was given to an Islamic community in Adelaide, the other sent to New Zealand. This is Nyunmiti Burton, whose idea it was. "For us when we lose someone, we go to the families and we go to the communities and we grieve, and we grieve and we grieve," Ms Burton told the ABC through an interpreter." Many Aboriginal paintings live in the strange habitat of the international art market, but these seem connected to original life of these motifs in the ritual lives of anangu communities. 