During her short artistic life, without ever abandoning her traditional and ritual obligations, she explored many styles, becoming increasingly stripped-down, adapting her technique to the physical limitations of her age. But always with a phenomenal power, energy, dreamlike freedom, poetry and sense of color.
This painting, which dates from the artist's third period, evokes the Dream of the Anooralya, the tuber whose flowers are called Kame, Emily's tribal name. The work depicts yam flowers in springtime, and show that they are literally blooming.
