ET '92 by Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, 51x61cm Cat 1423LSN

The first five of the ET series were exhibited at the Perpetual Motion exhibition organised by the Tandanya Art in Adelaide in 1994 and then purchased by the Art Galleries and Museums of the Northern Territory for their permanent collection.

Linda's spirit figure series has been inspired by the cinema production ET. Throughout the film ET constantly refers to "going home". Linda interpreted this as an ancestral spirit disassociated from it's traditional home. To the Aboriginal people of the central desert it is a commonly held belief that the land for which one is the traditional custodian always has a calling. This is a two way belief that one is called by the ancestors and the country as one has to constantly sing one's country. In this painting Linda has painted the ancestral figure shown on earth or "going home" with its country mates. They are indicative of the fusion between the contemporary world and the traditional, of the real world and the spiritual realm.