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• Installation, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, 2024
• Satellite Image of the Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming) West of Yuendumu.
• Satellite Image of the Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming) West of Yuendumu. Revised with Otto Jungarrayi Sims. 2014-2018
• Installation, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, 2024
• Satellite Image of the Pamapardu Jukurrpa (Flying Ant Dreaming) site in Wapurtali, west of Yuendumu.
• Satellite Image of the Pamapardu Jukurrpa (Flying Ant Dreaming) site in Wapurtali, west of Yuendumu. Revised with Agnes Nampijinpa Brown. 2014-2018
• Satellite Image of Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming).
• Satellite Image of Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming). Revised with Alma Granites, 2014-2026
• Satellite Image of Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming). Revised with Alma Granites, 2014-2026
• Installation, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, 2024
• Satellite image of the Warnu Jukurrpa (Snake Dreaming) site in Ngama, south of Yuendumu. Revised with Nikita Nungarrayi Morris, 2021-2022
• Satellite Image of the Yanjirlypirri or Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa. Revised with Sabrina Napangardi Granites, 2022
• Satellite Image of Country Neighbouring Wardapi Jukurrpa. Revised with Ruth Nungarrayi Spencer, 2014-2018
• Installation, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, 2024
• Process.
• Process.

The Warlpiri see their land – or country, as they call it – not only as soil and minerals, but as a natural and spiritual environment that transcends time, linking the past to the present into the future and human beings to the environment. This complex belief system – known as the Jukurrpa – was translated into English with the word Dreaming or Dreamtime, or occasionally ‘Everywhen’ meaning ‘at any, and all times.’

The sacred places that each Aboriginal group venerates and watches over are generally defined as Dreaming Sites. The images in this room are satellite images of these sacred places painted over by the site’s custodian. The images show the geographical location overlayed with a cultural understanding that the satellite is unable to render. When making the work, the site’s custodian would look at the satellite images that Waterhouse had printed and lay them out carefully on the ground in their correct orientation. The act was yet another affirmation of the deep Warlpiri knowledge of Country even when represented with land in satellite form. Once Waterhouse had stitched this composite of images together, the revision of these images began.

After years of collaboration Waterhouse was invited to visit places of great spiritual significance. He would occasionally be permitted to make photographs there. However, it was only after his collaborators had added their markings that the work was able to address the unique relationship between identity, time and place.