Sundown Point, located south of Arthur River, Tasmania is where my Manegin Ancestors lived for thousands of years, it’s here where my ancestors etched their tribal stories on the Petroglyphs. The Manegin Clan lived comfortably off the land and the sea, and cleverly used rockpools adjoining the Petroglyphs for containment and preservation of surplus seafood such as abalone and crayfish, which was retrieved and eaten during periods of need, and/or when bad weather prevented ocean diving to retrieve this important dietary resource.
The two semi-circular areas of my painting symbolically depicts these rockpools, while the multiple flaring areas within blue dotted curving lines that extend from the rockpools depict the petroglyphs which are now covered by the ocean. The central clusters of multicoloured circles symbolically depict the still visible petroglyphs and the ancient engraved messages which are mostly based upon circles.
The remaining various single coloured circular dotted areas bordered by white dotted lines forming irregular shapes, symbolically represent the land, vegetation, dunes, and the adjoining Sundown Creek.