Bush Hen Dreaming

Bush Hen Dreaming (2017) by Abie Loy Kemerre.    Part of her iconic Bush Hen Dreaming series, Abie Loy uses multi-layered dotting techniques to create a vibrating, optical depth of field across the canvas. The solid pinkish-red circle sitting near the centre of the canvas represents a sacred waterhole. This central hub serves as both a literal geographic landmark and a sacred women-only ceremonial site.

Radiating away from the central circle are structured, dark geometric corridors lined with neat white tracking dots.  These lines depict the structural topography of the country near Utopia (Artenya) and outline the physical tracks left by the ancestral Bush Hen (Bush Turkey) as she roams the land in search of food and water.