A3 Art Prints - Poortamay

297 x 420mm (A3 size)

Printed on acid free museum quality cotton rag 310gsm - using pigment inks

Ready to frame.

THE STORY

This piece was commissioned by St Vincent's Hospital's Palliative Care Hospice - Caritas Christi in Kew. My aim was to create an artwork that reflects the Palliative Care experience from a First Nations perspective.

The butterfly represents transitioning to the afterlife, their Dreaming, and trusting the process and people supporting them in the hospice, which are represented by the hands. 

The stars represent the Dreaming, where their ancestors live. The boomerangs represent them returning to their Dreaming and the blue journey lines have their stories and footprints in them that will always remain here.

The butterfly's body is made up of two shields representing them feeling safe and the circles in the bottom of the butterfly represent their family, mob and community, whom they will continue to watch over.

The small leaves in the butterfly represent letting go, like a leaf knows when to let go of the branch, when the time is right. The Red Tailed-Black cockatoo feathers represent them setting their spirit free.

The larger leaves outside of the butterfly represent Country as their medicine and Country is also represented in the pink part surrounding the bottom of the butterfly.

The green parts on either side of the butterfly shows the connections to different people, places, and animals that the person made during their life journey.