River of Stars
river of stars in the sky. This is what it looks like when Naminapu Maymuru-White paints Milŋiyawuy (a river that has its astral parallel in the Milky Way) in ochre on barks and on larrakitj (hollow logs). Her paintings, such as , 2019, are cast in sublunar light: a series of larger white stars float across a tight lattice of granular white paint, which itself is set against a black and grey background on bark. These are tiny stars seen from the ground, painted in such a way
