Matjanka Norris Kungkarangkalpa - Seven Sisters 47-23AS, Adelaide Studio, acrylic on Belgian linen, 250 x 200 cm
Matjangka has depicted the infinite and breathtakingly beautiful night sky
that is omnipresent above the country of the *APY lands. Detailed doing
creates an expansive field of stars. This is the Milky Way where the
Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa depicts the Seven Sisters when they have flown
up into the Milky Way and can be seen as the star cluster known as the
Pleiades or seven sisters. The story involves seven sisters who traveled from
place to place to escape the man called Nyirru. He constantly changed his
shape so they have to keep running away. He would like to marry the
youngest sister but the other sisters do not like the idea of the sister
marrying the man because he is ugly and has six toes. Eventually the sisters
fly up into the Milky Way and can be seen as the star cluster known as the
Pleiades (Seven Sisters).
