- Title: Every Hundred Metres
- Artist: Marika Riley
- Region: Kimberley
- Art Centre: Warmun Art Centre
- Medium: Woodblock print
- Collection:
- Dimensions: 38 x 56cm
- Edition Size: 9
- Price ($AUD): $ 245
Artwork Story
Yulumbu to Bulgundi is about 21kms. Around 2008, Lindsay, I and our five children went to Bulgundi for the weekend. It was in October during the hot season and we got Kangaroos that evening. While Lindsay was gutting the Kangaroos, using the headlights of our car to see, all of a sudden the car battery went flat so we started pushing the car but ot didn’t start. So we decided to walk but it was too late and already dark. So we cooked the Kangaroos and camped the night. Lindsay woke us up at 3am, had breakfast, then we all headed off to Yulumbu. Bulgundi to Yulumbu, and in that month the water was muddy and dirty but we had no choice but to drink it. Lindsay would carry the two younger boys, one at a time, every 100 meters, and then sit them under a shady tree with their older siblings, until I catch up while carrying baby Nicole. When we ran out of that dirty drinking water, Lindsay would have to walk back to last water place and refill. It was a big walk and I had to take it steady because I was carrying baby Nicole. It nearly killed Lindsay and it was 16 hour walk that we done. Marika Riley
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