Balang and Narditjan are the skin names of the married couple. In his Married Law paintings, Paddy depicts a tradition when aboriginal people make a life together. They are assured of their mortal lives as well as there spiritual lives. Sometimes in his paintings there is a dragonfly or butterfly which are totems and are symbolic to life after death. Aboriginals in Arnhem Land believe in reincarnation. Paddy says even insects have a biggest history, language, skin group, and culture.
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