In this work, Valerie Marshall Napanangka presents her version of the Dream of Pikilyi, a sacred site with a waterhole and stream not far from Yuendumu. She paints her father's dreams, stories linked to her land, its characteristics, and the plants and animals that surround it. These stories have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Valerie Marshall Napanangka uses traditional iconography, while developing a modern, individualistic style.
Legend has it that a pair of Rainbow Serpents lived here, although their union was taboo due to the clan laws of their people, which forbade, among other things, romantic relations between the two families from which they descended. Women came to remove the lice attached to the bodies of the two mythical beings, who in exchange gave them the right to take water from the stream. The Aborigines still celebrate ceremonies in this place, where the spirit of the two snake