Jeltje Fanoy #35 Mayilimiriw (Nyapanyapa Yunupingu) 2

Excited by their
mayilimiriw, at first,
of course, I saw th gap
between experience,
meaningless but compelling,
and she says she paints
to please herself,
natural pigments on bark
her artistic inheritance,
but she's embracing it all,
this is mayilimiriw, not
out of "nothingness"
not leaving it all behind,
her brave acts of empathy, our
encouragement, perhaps, allowing
her to do so, in public, alongside
th guiding dreamtime narrative