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TVU 21. Awelye, Body Paint, Emily Kngwarreye, 1996, 60" x 36"

Another late painting in which the artist has has used long ghostly brush strokes, almost like vapor trails seen in the sky. The brush strokes are based on ceremonial body paint designs to create a hauntingly powerful painting with a strikingly modern sensibilty. Emily painted these works on the ground working her way around the canvas dealing with a quadrant at a time, hence the distinctive rhythms of the brush strokes, which tend to trail off in the middle of the canvas due to the limits of Emily's reach.