Discombobulated Woman is a forerunner of the many disjointed or disconcerting figures in landscapes in Shuvinai’s oeuvre that would follow. It shows an Inuk artist taking an approach unique to those that had come before her—her style had not been seen in drawings coming out of Cape Dorset before this time.

It is best not to read Discombobulated Woman’s title too literally, as the work was likely not titled by the artist. Most Cape Dorset works are titled in the South, although this is beginning to change.