Taylor Cooper (born in 1940) is a respected elder who teaches his people’s culture to the younger generations through ceremonies and art. Born near Malara, a sacred water hole, he paints stories associated with it. His pictural technic and style derive from the art of sand painting in which large areas are drawn and colored with natural pigments, hence the monumental size of his paintings on canvas. These have to be seen as mythical maps: the concentric circles tell of sacred sites - seen from the sky - found on his family’s territory. The dotted lines tell of sacred trails followed by ancestors. The different colors represent the soil as well as the plants’ flowers that blossom after rain season.