This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of the Kiwirrkura Community. A large group of women, represented in the ’U’ shapes, camped at the site during their travels east to Kiwirrkura. While at the site the women made the nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made in the nose web. the nose bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.
Source: Papunya Tula Artists
Precis Biography, Papunya Tula Artists and John Gordon 2007 State:
“Yinarupa Nangala is the daughter of the late Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, an artist and former shareholder of Papunya Tula Artists. She lives at the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia along with her brother Ray James Tjangala, another well respected Papunya Tula Artist. Yinarupa’s paintings have an instinctive sense of space and rhythm, with odd clusters of shape and line conspiring in her works to depict topographic renderings of her birthplace Mukula, which lies in open country south-west of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. The earthly vibrations of Mukula hum across the surface of her paintings, inviting us to stop and listen as her stories unfold before us.