'Kungkarangkalpa' by Nora Abbott
A painting about the Seven Sisters' travels of Central Australia. Wati Nyiru is a lust-filled shape shifting man who seeks to seduce the Seven Sisters and take them as his wives.
Wati Nyiru is smart, but so is the eldest Sister. They each have their stories, their songs, and their dances. Each knows how to reach the country they move through, their bush tucker, their Law.
The Sisters flee with Wati Nyiru in perpetual pursuit. They forever travel through sand hill country hoping they have left him behind. However, Wati Nyiru uses his shape-shifting so he is ahead of them, anticipating his next opportunity to seduce and steal one of the younger sisters away.
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