Tjalini. Lift or carry something heavy, carry a load, lug.2019
Artist statement: This work is about carrying. Carrying culture, carrying law, carrying responsibility for Country, and maintaining it for generations to come. These responsibilities weigh heavy, but Anangu (people of the Western Desert language groups of central Australia) continue to find new ways of lifting them every day.
In my home of Mimili Community, flour buckets are used daily to carry, store or hide many things. For one who knows how to look, the storylines of these buckets and their owners unfold throughout the landscape. When I sand-blast back into the buckets with the very sand I find them resting on, I reveal the shiny surface beneath.
Underneath the many responsibilities Anangu carry today lies a resilient and radiant strength. It is with this strength we continue to carry culture and protect Country.
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Chromogenic prints are printed on paper that has at least three emulsion layers containing invisible dyes and silver salts. Each emulsion layer is sensitive to a different primary colour of light (red, green or blue). The development process converts the hidden dyes to visible colour depending on the amount of light it was exposed to. This type of paper is commonly used to print from colour negatives or digital files to produce a full-colour image. It can also be used to print black-and-white images, giving softer grain and less contrast than gelatin silver prints. Commonly known as c-type prints, chromogenic processing was developed in the 1940s and widely used for colour printing, including for domestic snapshots. While recent years have seen this process accompanied by ink-jet and digital printing technologies, chromogenic printing still remains in use to this day.
