Originally from Utopia in the Central Desert, Abie Loy Kemarre represents here an “aerial” mental projection of his sacred territory associated with the “bush hen” Ancestor. In the Dreamtime, the mythical time of the creation of the World, this ancestor traveled through this territory to find seeds symbolized by the multiple dotted lines in a range of blues that dot the canvas and make it so vibrant. The light red and white circle in the center of the painting evokes both a watering hole where the ancestor drank and the ceremonial site around which ancestral stories related to the Dreaming of the bush hen, rituals reserved for women, are still celebrated today.
