Summer Seeds 1991

Emily Kame Kngwarreye made Summer Seeds with paint, laying down a field of gentle stipples of red and white. Just imagine her at work; I can picture her patiently building up the surface, dot by dot, maybe outside in the sun. I wonder what it was like to create this. It's so meditative and repetitive. Yet, each dot seems subtly different. The textures of the paint, the way the colors shift from deeper reds to lighter pinks—it's like a living, breathing thing. This isn't about one specific thing, but about the feeling of a season, the energy of growth. Her paintings, often large, are filled with rhythmic marks, which remind us of the paintings of Agnes Martin. Artists like Emily and Agnes, they teach us to slow down, to see the world with a fresh perspective. They show us that even in the simplest of gestures, there's a world of meaning waiting to be discovered.