Salt on Mina Mina by Dorothy Napangardi etching

"Salt on Mina Mina 2008", etching by Dorothy Napangardi depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country, located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that, rarely filled with water, exist as clay-pans. As water soaks into the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges, becoming delineated by salt. The white dotting depicts the crustations of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched with the tracks of the ancestral women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories.

Edition of 50, Image Size: 50 cm x 39 cm, Paper Size: 76 cm x 56 cm, Paper: Magnani pescia. Editioning sequence: 2 colours, black, white, Printer: Clinton Barker for Basil Hall Editions, Darwin, NT, Publisher: Gallery Gondwana

Curator's note:
Along with every purchase we are offering a free copy of the book titled: Honouring And Remembering The Art And Life Of Dorothy Napangardi