Dave Ross Pwerle is a perfect example of the 'art of sites and journeys' typical of Australian desert artists. His work depicts - seen from the sky - sacred sites (the concentric circles) founded in the mythical Dreamtime by the Ancestors of his family group.

As an initiate, he remains marked by the pictorial tradition of the desert, which celebrates the memory of the Dreamtime and marvellous beings. It is for this reason that he rejects all picturesqueness in his canvases.

They must retain this high degree of abstraction which, a priori, reserves their profound meaning for the initiated alone. The subject matter of the artist's canvases is no secret: they are the tracks traced in the desert by Great Ancestors who, at each of their stops, founded a religious site that is still frequented and honoured today.

The work can therefore be read as the cartography of sacred territories: we speak of "satellite vision". This technique makes it possible to represent extremely vast spaces on the relatively small surface of the canvas. The tracks neither begin nor end at the borders of the canvas: they cross it and direct the eye towards a beyond - that of initiation.