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Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
Pulkartu Dreaming by John Prince Siddon  Image: Photograph by Dan McCabe
  • John Prince Siddon
  • Pulkartu Dreaming, 2023
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 120 x 120 x 3 cm
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Spider wow are danger.
The bite can put you in hospital, but if you leave them alone in peace, you'll be fine.
What amaze me is the webs.
The patterns when they do webs.

Look carefully close up, see what I mean.
Most webs are different shape, some large, some small, but the pattern they make, wow, it will blow you away.
I know the webs use for trap small flying insect.
To my mind I see it, great pattern arts.
Webs done by a deadly insect, the spider.

What made me do this painting of animals and insects weaving together patterns?
My answer is the weaving women do, making basket made of long, fine, soft grass.
Remind me of fine web art when spider do webs spinning.
The first painting is a moth weaving a fish out of string of soft grass.
The second is wallabies weaving a basket also made of soft grass.
Last one is the butterfly & ladybug and also a spider weaving a large kangaroo which got trap in a spinning web.

Many patterns you'll find in bush like spider webs.
Also wallabies make tracks with his or her paws, tails and hands.
Make pattern in the sand.
The bugs and butterfly make weaves and flower pretty because the colour match.
Our people, our great great grandma do weaving too.
Women need to find wet tree branch to get soft grass, then dry it out in the sun.
Don't know much about women doing weaving, it's a secret they kept

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