Friday, October 7th 2020.

Uluru, Aboriginal art and symbols

Kangaroos in the foreground

Uluru in the background

(A sunset which is represented with a sun and rays of light…)

Three main colours : orange, red / ochre, and yellow => warm colours

Landscape : a desert, red earth, a sanctuary, a dry land, burning hot temperatures, desolate / barren, very little vegetation.

Through the painting by Danny Eastwood and the picture given, we understand that this is a land with hot temperatures. It is represented through the colours, the sunset and the landscape. The colours are warm colours, mainly red or ochre, orange and yellow. The sunset is represented with the sun and rays of light. It’s quite majestic above Uluru. This place has been listed as a UNESCO world heritage site because it is a huge magnificent rock, also called Ayers Rock. And it’s a sacred place. This is also a special place because there are kangaroos which are the ultimate symbols of Australia.

The artist is kneeling on the ground, he is surely an Aborigine, painting in the middle of the desert.

Let’s try to decipher his painting !

It can represent the communication by smoke signals between different campsites. Indeed the symbols he uses show different places : many campsites and many smoke signals.

All around the campsites, we can see emu and kangaroo tracks so this painting is about kangaroo living in the desert, moving along the travelers and their campsites.