Elizabeth Marks is from the Papunya community, where contemporary Aboriginal painting was born in 1970.

She likes to depict sacred territories once traversed by her Great Ancestors: here, the area around Kalipinpa, a watering place once filled by a tremendous deluge whose many lightning bolts shattered the rock.

Today, this beneficent deluge is still celebrated through various ceremonies at Kalipinpa, depicted here in the form of a highly stylised satellite view. This type of work emphasises the sacred dimension of the place it evokes, deliberately eliminating any figurative or ‘picturesque’ elements, as if to preserve its mystery.