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Karum Au Ai - Goanna's Food
Dennis Nona
(Badu Island)
Torres Strait
2007
Linoprint edition of 45
25 7/8" x 22 2/3"
$500.00 CDN
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Karum Au Ai in my language is what the goannas eat on Badu island. There are two different species of goanna on the Island. One is called Tamai. Tamai usually runs up the coconut trees and eats little insects and this one, the second species in language is called Karum which I made the title here, the Karum. Karum, it usually eats turtle eggs on the small island. Turtle eggs are a delicacy to Torres Strait Islanders and in the artwork, I feel sorry about the threat to the survival of these turtles because we over-hunt them nowadays and also everybody wants turtle eggs. In this artwork I wanted to make it about the future, about how we should think about the future. Thats what the work, Karum Au Ai is referring to not only the goanna eats the turtle eggs, but we Islanders eat it, so its both human and lizard, and I think we have to take caution because in the olden days times, there were rules which in language is called kwod, like a Parliamentary house on each island there were courts are held and we had to take enough food and that was directed from the kwod. When turtle eggs or food like that are hunted they have to let the kwod know how many eggs they got and that has to be shared with everyone and if you keep going you will be punished. Theres only a certain time to eat those turtle eggs. I just wanted to base the artwork on that.
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