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Most Aboriginal dreaming stories impart practical as well as spiritual knowledge. An important subtext of these stories involves what kinds of food can be found in season at given locales in the desert——important survival oriented knowledge for nomadic hunter-gatherers. Lucy has painted the country where she lived a nomadic lifestyle with her family before moving to Balgo Mission. Depicted here is a central rockhole the red oval), a place where water can be found,The surrounding u shapes depict the different types of trees in the area; the white ones are Kulpi, which produce seeds for damper and the green ones are Walpuru, a mulga tree. Woman are gathering the seeds to make damper or seedcake to eat. Lucy's
bold use of color and her thick application of paint to create a dense
seemingly unified surface, and her ability to imply landscape through
visual shorthand, makes this a classic Lucy composition. This is one
of a series of board paintings commissioned by Songlines in 1988.
Lucy sadly passed away in 2003 and is survived by her husband Helicopter
and by their daughter who is on her way to becoming a remarkable painter
as well.
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