Over the Moon by GB ladies
Jack Jill and Joey by Kristmess Designs
Artsy Blocks 14 by Miss FIsh
Songlines, or Dreaming tracks, are pathways of knowledge that crisscross the continent and form the foundational stories of Australia. They map the routes and activities of Ancestral creator beings imprinting the stories in the features of the land. Major songlines span the continent, while more localised ones connect only a few sites. Like the epic poems of the great oral traditions from around the world, songlines are a way of holding and passing on knowledge in non-text based societies. Access to this knowledge ranges from public versions to secret/sacred or closed versions, available only to the most senior custodians Songlines explain creation and transmit cultural values, including protocols of behaviour and how to live sustainably on this continent, as Australia's First Nations peoples have for millennia. By embedding that information in story, performance and art, an entire continent has been mapped by and for its people and remains memorable for generations
Walking through a Songline imagines the experience of being immersed in a songline. This one visualises the Seven Sisters Songline, a story that changes as Country changes across the continent and the lands of many different groups. It is also a universal drama played out across the night sky, seen in the Orion constellation and the Pleiades star cluster. This story beings in the Western Desert in Martu Country where a group of sisters are being chase wrongfully by a lustful sorcerer looking for a wife. A shapeshifter, he uses many disguises to trick the sisters and lure them to him so he can possess them.He turns into delectable foods, water, a shady tree or a juicy snake to tempt the hungry sisters. But the sisters can shapeshift too, infuriating their pursuer and creating songlines as they run and fly. Chased across APY and Ngaanyatjarra lands, the language changes as they flee across different Countries. Their activities are recorded in the features of the land, such as rock formations and waterholes, and in the night sky. Come follow the sisters as they travel through desert lands and across the sky, mapping Country for millennia to come.
