Kaalpa (Canning Stock Route Well 23) , 2021
91 x 61 x 2 cm (h x w x d)
2020 AUD
Acrylics on canvas
sold
[MART21-362]

“Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) is my grandfather's Country. There's a waterhole there, Kaalpa waterhole. It's my two pops' Country. They been walking around, hunting around Kaalpa. You can see a yapu (rock), warla (lake), claypans, karru (creek) and tuwa (sandhills) there. It's on the [Canning] Stock Route, it's Well 23.
In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days, pujimanpa (desert born people) walking around all this Country. My pops told me about that place, a big flat area, parlkarra (flat country) good for hunting parnajarrpa (goanna), lunki (witchetty grub), lungkurta (blue tongue lizard), wamurla (bush tomato), jinyjiwirrilyi (wild gooseberry).
Kaalpa is a busy place for emus getting a drink. I went [to Kaalpa] for the first time [in 2018] on a Martumili KJ (Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa) trip. I went hunting there, got a parnajarrpa. When I went there, I was pukurlpa (happy). It made you open up your spirit, it feels like home.” - Corban Clause Williams

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