Originally from Utopia in the Central Desert, Abie Loy presents here an “aerial” mental projection of her sacred country, associated with the Ancestor known as the “bush hen.” In the Dreamtime, the mythical period of the world’s creation, this Ancestor traveled across the land to find seeds, represented by the numerous dotted patterns in shades of blue that cover the canvas and give it its vibrant energy.

The central red-and-white circle represents both a waterhole where the Ancestor drank and the ceremonial site around which ancestral stories of the Bush Hen Dream are still celebrated today, rituals reserved for women.