Ronnie draws his inspiration from the myths associated with the Tingari Men, the great ancestors of the Dreamtime that the Pintupi still celebrate today.

These mythical men roamed the Australian territory with their wives and young apprentices. They would initiate them as they went along.

The initiations took place at sites they created, which 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 stylized form the paths they once followed in the desert.

In this painting, Ronnie evokes an episode from the Dreamtime, in which two women on the trail of a perenti varan (or ngintaka in the Pintupi dialect) found it at the Walungurru (Kintore) site, then killed it. It turned into a rock, which later became a mountain and is an important visual landmark near Kintore.

All the Ronnie Tjampitjinpa works come from the Papunya Tula PTY. Ltd.