Ronnie Tjampitjimpa draws his inspiration from the myths linked to the Tingari Men - the great ancestors of the Dreamtime that the Pintupi communities celebrate in a special way: according to legend, these were men who travelled the Australian territory accompanied by their wives and young apprentices. They would initiate these young apprentices as they travelled.

The initiations took place at sites that they created and that still exist today: it is here that the Aborigines commemorate their memory during ceremonies in which they paint motifs on the ground evoking the Dreamtime. More often than not - and this is the case here - the works inspired by the Tingari ancestors retrace in stylised form the paths they once followed in the desert.

Highly geometric in inspiration, these 'tracks' often have the appearance of more or less complex labyrinths that structure the clan territories of the communities of the central desert. They are depicted as if seen from the sky, but there is no particular way of reading such canvases: neither right nor left, neither up nor down.

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