At the centre of the image in blue is a motif that Oonark used frequently in her art: the human face. Unfurling from this smiling countenance are concentric rings of blue and red that spiral outwards and contain between their bands a bevy of human faces with four birds at the bottom and one at the top. This spiral shape is open to interpretation; it might represent the drum dance, an aerial view of a snow house, or perhaps something else entirely.

Bristling with precision, the centrifugal patterns of lines and figures create a dizzying display that seems to rotate and before the viewer. There is a feeling of infinity and endlessness to the print, as if the spiral shapes could either expand outward or contract inward indefinitely. It is profoundly fitting, then, that The People, emblematic of her enduring artistic legacy, is one of Oonark’s final creations before her passing in 1985.