A bushfire has burnt the country and bare trees are visible. The rain has come after the bushfire and filled the rock-holes – kapi tjukula. Soon the new green growth will appear.
Mantuwa was born at Shirley Well, near Fregon, where her parents worked on the cattle station which was part of Ernabella Mission. Her parents moved to Fregon where she grew up. She continues to live in the Kaltjiti Community of Fregon, a small, remote aboriginal community on the *APY Lands where she works from the Kaltjiti Arts Centre.
*Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands, far North West of South Australia.