Cameron Ross Kemarre

It was 1983, I was only 16 years old. I was sent to a place called Wallace Rockhole, about 120km from Alice Springs out west. It was a place for young boys (juvenile) to go to serve time for getting into trouble a lot. My mum and dad dropped me off on the 2nd of January 1983, it was really hot, summertime. Time went by and in no time, it was wintertime. The boss was very hard on me. It was hard work. Every day. Mustering season had come so we slept under the stars for about three to four months. This winter was one of the coldest on record, large trees were freezing and then snapping, just breaking so easily. I hardly ever slept. Too cold, freezing weather. Always had fires at night till sunrise every day. I was always up alone while the others slept. On one particular night, early in the morning, not sleeping well at all, tossing and turning from the cold. I rolled over in my swag on my side facing west and ‘OMG’ wow, it was the moon, so full but like gigantic, a great big white bag, huge in size. Amazing. I tried waking steven to see this sight. You must see this brother; I whispered as not to wake the others. He was too tired and wasn’t interested. So, I let him sleep. A few minutes went by, and I couldn’t stop looking at the moon. Rolling over to face east I kinda yelled out in even more excitement. I got yelled at from the others, still asleep, for making noise. But still nobody saw the moon, and now to the east the sun was rising just as large as the moon in the west. A gigantic yellow ball and both moon and sun were perfectly aligned in a straight line. Same size, same height, everything about them was the same. Just one was white and one yellow. We were in like a valley and these two large balls were going to roll on us, kil us, squash us. This is how it really looked. This was actually a very special, spiritual event, doesn’t happen too often. And you gotta be in the perfect place at the perfect time to see this special event. No one ever spoke about this with me about the moon and sun. There was no interest whatsoever, which means none of the others saw this event. I felt sad no one took any notice, out of about twelve men I’m the only one that saw this. I was meant to see this event and there will be many more events like this in the future, I don’t know if I’ll have time to paint all these new events. But they’re coming, I thank Ngarte for this very special moment in my life. I always wished another person saw this so we could talk about the beautiful thing we saw together. This happened on my dad’s mum’s country, Arrente land. So, it was special even more for me. It was spiritual, meant to be, I’m so into Ngarte’s creations, all of it, all of you. I feel blessed to see this and there is more coming right up until the end. My belief, creator is coming soon, look after yourself and our planet just as my ancestors did. Our world, our universe, our neighbours, us, humanity, it’s all amazing, glorious. Thank you Ngarte forever eternity, love my world.
Cameron Ross Pengarte – signature – 22.12.2024