By Margaret Somerville
Studying this booklet is like falling via a faultline, as we reply to poesis, either as poetry and as idea production. Margaret Somerville attended the 1984 Pine hole Women's Peace Camp the place city ladies and Aboriginal ladies established opposed to army bases. As she moved during the panorama of this and different very varied areas, she recorded her interactions: with Aboriginal ladies within the wasteland within the mountains and at domestic, and with white girls within the tropics and at domestic. it's a considerate problem of all that we predict. She concludes with reflections at the structure of affection.
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For me, it was the Aboriginal thread that continued into my later work: within three years of Pine Gap I had begun working on Ingelba (1990) with Patsy Cohen, followed by The Sun Dancin’ (1994) and ‘In Search of the Queen’ (1995). It is clear now that the Aboriginal women did, in fact, present the first tissue paper layer of a different level of mapping the land with songs and songlines; that the disruption of straight lines and roads by circles of hats and parasols opened up possibilities for new meanings to emerge and that those possibilities are still open.
Ngalya-nyina, sit down, the women say, banging the ground beside them. The singing rises and falls spontaneously to the thud thud of the beat, hands on thighs, cupped hand against cupped hand or stick on ground, rhythm and counter rhythm that runs through the earth and up into our bodies. One of the most important points that must be understood about traditional cultural knowledge in Central Australia is that it is centred on song knowledge. The definition of a knowledgeable person is the person ‘knowing many songs’, for without song knowledge, information about places, laws, correct behaviour, healing, food sources and a host of other items is unavailable .
Seeds sprout, green Two Women Dreaming 51 leaves appear and flowers bloom until the desert is a carpet of green splashed with brilliant colour. Caterpillars proliferate and ants are busy everywhere. The next day we return to photograph the brilliant purple blue fluorescence but the petals have completely vanished. The cycle is complete. In the desert, John the lawyer keeps on asking where did the law begin? Ron the translator is having problems with his questions. Nganyinytja becomes agitated. The law she says, tjukurpa, the dreaming, has no beginning and it has no end.