Originally from Balgo Hills (Western Australia), Tjumpo's paintings evoke the landscapes of the Great Sandy Desert on the edge of which lies Balgo, the former Catholic mission where, in the 1930s, Aborigines expelled from their ancestral lands were gathered. For the artist and the other Balgo painters, this art of the desert is also an art of remembrance.

Here, the artist wanted to depict a familiar landscape, Wilkinkarra. The rest of the canvas is organized around this axis, where the artist has preferred to blend the dotted lines usually used by desert painters into a system of continuous lines reminiscent of energy waves.