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...water holes that are believed to be manifestations of its journey. Ngalyod's appetite is thought to have forged the local landforms, and one gets a sense of this in Marralwanga's Ngalyod and Yawkyawk, 1983, in which the two creatures consume each other. Mawurndjul's brother Jimmy Njiminjuma pushed the concept even further in his large-scale serpents from the mid '80s, which wrestle with the very edges of the frame. But no one inhabits Ngalyod better than Mawurndjul, whose increasingly abstract depictions give an insider view of the supreme being. "Where I live," he has said, "a Ngalyod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Spirits | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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