This document discusses different types of journeys, including physical, emotional, and spiritual journeys. It provides examples of each type and explains that a journey can involve more than one type. Aboriginal artists have depicted journey stories through their art. Two artworks are described - an etching showing a water Dreaming journey through flood waters across the landscape, and a screenprint telling the story of ancestral brothers' journey teaching people and leaving impressions on the land. The document encourages creating one's own journey story artwork.

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Journeys
What is a Journey?
What type of journey can a person make?
What Journey’s have I made?
How have Aboriginal Artists portrayed a
Journey story?
• How can I portray one of my Journey
stories in an artwork?

2. What is a Journey?
The dictionary definition of a journey is:
•To travel: undertake a journey or trip
•The act of travelling from one place to another
The act of travelling from one place to another is the most
common type of Journey we hear about. For example, you may
have journeyed by car from your home in Sydney to a holiday on
the coast. However, there are many types of journeys that we as
human beings can take!

3. What types of Journeys can we
make?
There are many types of Journeys that we
can make in a life time.
We can make:
• Physical Journeys
• Emotional Journeys
• Spiritual Journeys

4. A Physical Journey is…..
when one moves from point A to point B.
For example, when you leave home each
morning and travel to school you are making
a physical journey. We can also refer to this
type of trip as a travelling journey.

5. An Emotional Journey is…
when one goes through a series of
different emotions or emotional responses
to any given situation in life.
Example: On your last day at Primary School,
you may have woken up feeling excited to
finally finish. As the day went on, you may have
felt a sense of sadness to be leaving friends but
then relieved once the bell went and you could
begin the summer holidays.

6. A Spiritual Journey is…
often a journey about self discovery and what
the individual believes about the soul and the
universe.
As children, we may question who created the
world and what is our place in the universe.
Usually, we try to find the answers to these
questions as we get older. In doing so, we
often discover much about ourselves.

7. Can a Journey be a combination
of physical, emotional and
spiritual?
What do you think? Take a moment to
consider this.
A journey can often be a combination of two or
all three of the headings we have been
considering.
Example:
One might take a physical trip to a foreign country,
experiencing all sorts of emotions along the way and end
up learning a lot about themselves, other cultures and
asking questions to do with spirituality and the individuals
place in the universe.

8. Activity 1: In your Visual Arts
eWorkspace, make a new Google
document “My Journey Story” and write
a journey story of your own. Try to
include elements of these three types of
journey:
• Physical Journeys
• Emotional Journeys
• Spiritual Journeys

9. The Dreaming Stories: A Journey
into Aboriginal Culture
Storytelling is an integral part of life for Indigenous
Australians. From an early age, storytelling plays a vital
role in educating children. Stories help to explain how the
land came to be shaped and inhabited; how to behave and
where to find certain foods.
Gathered around the camp fire in the evening, on an
expedition to a favourite waterhole, or at a landmark of
special significance, parents, Elders or Aunts and Uncles
use the stories as the first part of a child's education.

10. As children grow into young
adults, more of the history
and culture is revealed.
Adults then take
responsibility for passing
on the stories to the
following generations. In
this way, the Stories of the
Dreaming have been
handed down over
thousands of years.
These are stories of the
history and culture of the
people, handed down in
this way since the
beginning of time, since
the Dreamtime.
These stories often involve
the wanderings and
spiritual journeys of the
ancestral beings.

11. What are the Aboriginal
Journey Stories about?
How Have Indigenous
artists depicted their
Journey stories?

12. Ngapa Jukurrpa by Shorty
Jangala Robertson
• This etching depicts a
water Dreaming. The rain
story belongs to
Nampitjinpa and Nangala
women and Jampitjinpa
and Jangala men. They
travelled from east to west
of Yuendumu. The curvy
line represents the
ngawarra (flood waters)
traveling through the
landscape.
Etching - Artists's Proof
14 x 19 cm

13. Wati Kutjarra by Tjumpo
Tjapanangka
This print tells the story of the Wati
Kutjarra, a prominent Dreaming in the
Great Sandy Deserts.
The Wati Kutjarra were two ancestral
brothers who travelled large areas of the
Western Desert teaching ancestral people
about food, fire and hunting. This print
depicts the travels of the Wati Kutjarra to
Wilkinkarra (Lake McKay). The two
oblong shapes represent the two brothers
where they lay down to sleep and the
impressions left behind are seen in the
country today. The central circle depicts the
fire they lit which became a rockhole. At
either end of the painting, wiltja
(windbreaks) made of spinifex are depicted
which protect the men during ceremony.
Screenprint, Edition
size 99
54 x 80 cm