a series of small things in an unmapped country (22 November 2016)

 Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Emily's Dreaming, 1996

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- mistakenly (and repeatedly) attributed to George Eliot, 

more likely Adelaide Anne Procter, Legend of Provence

Emily Kame Kngwarreye painting Yam Awelye, at Delmore, 24 August 1995


It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- George Eliot

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Bush Yam Dreaming, c 1994

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

- George Eliot

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Multicolour Yam Dreaming, c 1995

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

- George Eliot

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Big Yam Dreaming Linear, c 1995

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- George Eliot

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yam Dreaming, 1995