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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Love Story, 1996
Acrylic on linen 123 x 123cm

The Love Story site is at Ngarlu (Red Hill) and the central character is Liltipililty. He desired a woman from the Napangati skin group but she was strictly forbidden as a sexual partner because of the marriage laws. Lilitipililty, represented as the large U shape was spinning human hair string on a simple cross spindle known as “wirrakurra” and he began to sing a magic love song and collect materials for his love magic. The white footprints are his tracks as he was collecting the items for his magic. As the Napangati woman came closer Liltipililty lost concentration and the clumps of unspun hair were blown away. The yellow footprints are those of the Napangati woman. She is shown as the diamond shape within the U. The neighboring shape is a Nulla Nulla or fighting club, but it is also metaphoric of the illicit act.