Abie Loy is one of the new generation of artists living in the Utopia community, in the heart of the Australian desert. She began painting in 1994 on the advice of her grandmother, the famous Kathleen Petyarre, who guided her in her first works, inspired by the ‘dreams’ of which she is the ritual guardian. 

In this work, she depicts a fragile and delicate bush plant: the sensitive plant. As soon as you touch this plant, it comes to life and retracts. 

Remarkable for its variation on the theme of dot painting, the impression of breathing that emanates from it, the hypnotic character of the motifs animated by a movement that is at once centrifugal and centripetal, this painting itself proves the high degree of awareness and aesthetic success that Abie Loy has achieved - proof of the high quality of desert painting and its own inventiveness.