Ilyarnayt - Janice Kngwarreye Clarke

"Ilyarnayt. It’s growing everywhere in Ngarwenyerra. My country. On those sandhills back there. Pretty flowers, yellow ones. Tyape likes them too. He living in there, inside those roots. We dig them up. Tyape kere mwerr-angker."

Janice Kngwarreye Clarke paints the flowering acacia, Ilyarnayt, which grows across her Country in the Utopia region of Central Australia. The delicate yellow flowers spread widely through the sandhills after rain, marking the changing seasons and the abundance of bush foods on Country. Beneath the roots live Tyape, the witchetty grubs, an important traditional food source gathered by digging into the earth below the acacia plants.