Waru Dreaming

This print represents men making a bushfire. The circles are sacred sites where the ancestral beings pass through on their travels throughout the landscape to create the Dreaming and bring it into reality. The fire is made by the men rubbing a digging stick on a coolamon (both made from wood) this eventually heats the wood and produces fire.

This print was made during workshops in collaboration with Cicada Press at the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. Papunya Tjupi has developed an ongoing working relationship with Michael Kempson, the director of Cicada Press since it's inception in 2007 through several work shops conducted both in Papunya and in Sydney. This relationship is part of a collaborative partnership of artistic and cultural exchange between the university and the Papunya Tjupi Art Centre.