Dennis Nona

Serial:

DN557

Title: Kodal-au Kaba (Crocodile paddle)

Created: 2018

Medium:

Copper plate etching on rag paper

Size:

150 x 1040mm image, 520 x 1330mm frame

$1,890 - $1,890 (tax inc.)

The story:

The meaning of Kodal-au Kaba is crocodile paddle. Paddles have inspired me as they have been used through the journeys and voyages of ocean travelling. They have great purpose for us in the Torres Strait Islands – both in the past and still now in the present. This particular paddle depicts a paddle that has been used for crocodile hunting. The mask represents an unhappy spirit face of a crocodile clansman. The hunters, when they hunt the crocodile, pay their respect to the crocodile clan, after its killed. Edition of 15 Printed by Dr David Jones in Brisbane, November 2018 on Hahnemuehle Weiss 300gsm paper using GC&I and Charbonell inks.