Like many of his contemporaries and in keeping with our historical convention there is an expectation that at some point of the male artist career that he will explore the female nude. In this image Norval chooses to depict Mother Earth as his subject matter making visible the connection between the fertility of the earth without of the female body. This depiction of the earth not only emphasizes her for the but also her agency she's not passive but actively engaged it is important to note historically indigenous people did not consider the erotic as a separate category of expression as it is within the Euro Canadian artistic tradition. Rather, oral traditions often incorporated what Euro-Canadians considered as erotic elements.