About the Artwork

My painting is all about sugar coming into Anangu country, my country. It is coming in, rushing; a flood of sugar flowing like a big river into all our communities. That sugar that we live on right now is a killer. We have traditional sweets. They come out in every season. Our bush foods. Kaminya tjamunya tjana pukulpa kunpu titutjara nyanapai pika wiya alatjitu. Our grandmothers and grandfathers were always strong, happy and healthy, not sick, always living that way. Those are the best bush sweets ever, what our people lived on for many years.