| Puuni Pan [Eclair de la mousson et raies piquantes] 2006
Eau-forte, éd.45, 100 x 23 cm
« Puuni Pan signifie ‘éclair’ et l’une de mes œuvres montre l’éclair sortant de la bouche d’une grenouille (Katubae). Ici, l’éclair renvoie également aux raies piquantes. Les éclairs et le tonnerre chassent les raies Tupmul des eaux profondes et les font remonter vers la surface. C’est seulement en période de mousson qu’éclatent les orages, et Puuni Pan est associé à cette gravure. Il existe cinq espèces différentes de raies piquantes, et nous ne mangeons que celle qu’on appelle Tupmul » . (Dennis Nona) |
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Puuni Pan [Lightning] 2006
Eau-forte, éd.45, 100 x 23 cm
"Puuni Pan is the lightning and in one of my works it shows a frog where lightning is coming out of the frog’s mouth. The frog is called Katubae. When the lightning arrives that also refers to the stingrays, that particular artwork. I had some stingrays underneath. That was telling that the lightning and the thunder drives the Tupmul, that particular stingray, up to the shallow area. That was a separate work I did. This particular artwork is associated with how the stingray gets to the shallow place. It’s only during the monsoon time when there are thunderstorms, and the Puuni Pan is associated with that same work.
There are probably about five different species of stingray, and we only eat one which is called a Tupmul." (Dennis Nona) |