"Lungkarda (Blue Tongue Lizard)"
Original Painting by Alice Granites Napanangka (Mina-Mina, NT & WA Border)
77cm x 102cm
Acrylic on 12oz canvas
"An old Blue Tongue Lizard man (Lungkarda) lived with his two sons.
One day the old man's sons hunted and killed a kangaroo, but did not return to the camp and instead greedily ate it all.
Lungkarda decided to punish his two sons. The next time the two sons went out hunting he took up a fire stick and ignited the bushes that exploded into flames. The flames flicked over the landscape in the same manner that the blue tongue lizard flicks. The bush fire chased the two sons for many kilometres, and the two sons eventually died of exhaustion.
The site of this great fire is Warlukurlangu from which the art centre takes its name."