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"Bush Yam Seeds" by Joy Pitjara

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"Bush Yam Seeds" by Joy PitjaraSize: 100 x 91cm Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Commissions available. Please enquire via email at art@creativenative. com. au Joy Pitjara was born in Boundary Bore, Utopia. She is the daughter of well known artist Glory Ngarla (deceased) and sister to the very famous Anna Price Petyarre. Born in a famous artist family, Joy learned to work with batik in an early age from her mother and later started painting on canvas with acrylic paints. Using a fine

Size: 100 x 91cm

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Commissions available. Please enquire via email at [email protected]

Joy Pitjara was born in Boundary Bore, Utopia. She is the daughter of well-known artist Glory Ngarla (deceased) and sister to the very famous Anna Price Petyarre. Born in a famous artist family, Joy learned to work with batik in an early age from her mother and later started painting on canvas with acrylic paints. Using a fine dotting technique with subtle shades of color, Joy depicts the stories such as the Bush Tobacco Plant and Yam Dreamings.

The subject of Joy’s painting tends to revolve around representations of leaves collected around her country and used for a variety of medicinal purposes. In particular, she returns, again and again, to "Bush Yam Leaves" and Bush Medicine", both of which themes show flowing representations of the leaves. Typical of Utopian artists, Joy rejoices in the use of color.

About the Story

Ceremonies associated with the Bush Yam are widespread throughout Central Australia, celebrating the importance of this native food and recognizing its ritual importance. When large numbers of people have gathered together for ceremonies and Law business, the critical issue in the desert is finding enough food to feed everyone.

The Dreaming or Jukurrpa Stories that relate to Bush Yam can focus on its propagation to promote abundance, and can also reflect on the traditional obligations to equally share access to food. The Warlpiri Creation story that comes from the Yumurrpa site, north of Yuendumu on the edge of the Tanami Desert in Central Australia, is one example of this. The Ancestors of the Yarla or large Bush Yam were in conflict with the Ancestors of the smaller Wapirti white Yam. They fought a pitched battle over the rights to the site where the Yams were created at Yumurrpa, and therefore were fighting over access to these mainstays of bush food. The custodians of the site maintain the ceremonies that record this battle waged by their Dreamtime Ancestors and recognize the message that their Ancestors are telling them. This is a message of fairness of the distribution of food, to avoid creating violence and disruption in society.

Some paintings show the spreading vine-like leaves of the Yarla plant, creating a web emanating from the tuber roots that are of the Bush Yam itself. The colors are chosen from the different seasons of the year and often show yellows, oranges, reds, and greens along with other vivid and contrasting colors. Joy Pitjara also shows the Wapirti White yam, the water source at Yumurrpa where both the yams were created in the Jukurrpa Dreaming story, and the Big Yam conflict between the warring Ancestor spirits.

The Yam story is well represented further south on the Utopia Homelands of Central Australia, where the artists show the ceremonial links of the Anmatyerre people to the Yam as a source of sustenance in the desert. Artists like Emily Kngwarreye, Galya Pwerle, Gloria Petyarre, Jeannie Mills Pwerle, and Rosemary Petyarre have established their own styles of paintings of the Yam and the women’s ceremonies associated with Yam Dreaming. Their depictions of the Yam Seed and Yam Flower are aspects of interest in the fertility of the Yam plant, and the paintings serve as ceremonies do also, to celebrate and promote the abundance of the Yam.

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