Mina Mina Salt - Diptych Etching by Dorothy Napangardi DN-26

Date: 2006
Catalogue No: DN-26
Limited Edition: 11
Image Size: 88 cm x 44 cm
Paper size: 108 cm x 78 cm
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Produced at: The National Art School, Paddington, Sydney, in 2006
Printer: Belinda Fox at Belinda Fox Studios, Melbourne, VIC

fine example of the style of painting that she is internationally renowned for.

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. In this striking diptych design of white and black dotting, Dorothy depicts the crustations of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched with the tracks of the women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories.