Product Description
The Worm Dreaming story has already been covered in this catalogue but what sets this work
apart is its dotted design of the worm tracks and the background colour. Both are exceptionally
rare in Cliffords’ Worm Dreamings.
The reason that this master work was so meticulously executed is attributable to the Kluge family
visiting Sydney and then considering a trip to Melbourne to visit Clifford. The Kluges are major
collectors of Aboriginal art and great patrons of Clifford so he decided to paint a ‘special’ work in
anticipation. As it turned out the Kluges did not visit the artist and the work remained in
Australia.
Other important features of this work are the tracks of the crows as they look for the worms and
the star like Spinifex Grass which again alludes to ceremony as its burning produced a resin used
to attach objects together that may have been used as ceremonial paraphernalia.
