Women collecting bush tomatoes

$507.00

  • 50cm x 51cm
  • Acrylic on Canvas
  • Catalog No: 3778097-25/84

This is a painting about women collecting bush tomatoes. The bush tomato is found in the hot dry bushland of Central Australia. After a big rain the plants grow tiny flowers and soon after, produce small green fruits. The green fruit is not ripe, when the fruit turns yellow it is ripe and ready to eat. The fruit can also become dried in the sun and turn brown, this is also still good to eat. The brown curves in the painting represent women sitting with their digging sticks amongst the yellow ripe fruit.

Aboriginal Women know how to find bush food in the desert and they pass on this knowledge to the younger women.

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