Remarkable for its truly extraordinary mastery of dot painting, the impression of breathing that emanates from it, the hypnotic character of the motifs animated by a movement that is both centrifugal and centripetal, this canvas itself proves the high degree of awareness and aesthetic achievement to which Abie Loy has attained - proof of the high quality of today's desert painting and its own inventiveness.

The "dream of the sensitive" that inspired the artist was of course dictated by religious imperatives: this plant is linked to a sacred territory for which Abie Loy and her people are responsible. By staging it, she manifests her ritual "ownership" of the site where the sensitive grows, and fulfills a duty to remember, since it was her great ancestors who, in the Dreamtime, created the place and grew the plant there.

The plant, which grows in the summer months, is also a symbol of fertility in a region with a mostly arid climate, and to devote a painting to it is both to bear witness to the reality of this fertility and to ensure it for the future, since by painting, the artist is performing a religious act which, by commemorating the Edenic Dreamtime when this plant was created, ensures its permanence and guarantees future fertility.