Ian Rictor paints with quite confidence that comes from someone who knows their place in the landscape. Here he depicts the significant site of Tuwan situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site manifests the Tjulpu TjutaTjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line) and follows a group of Nyii Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) who travel south to the coast and save the world from rising seas. These characters that Ian depicts are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence.
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