TDP 7. Fire Dreaming, Dr. George Tjapaltjarri, 1987, 72 x 36 inches, 192 x 92 cms

The painting above is a classic 1980's style Tingari Cycle painting giving ample evidence that long before Dr. George developed his new style paintings in the late 90's, which can be seen earlier in the Papunya area of this site, that he was already a painter of formidable talents.

The network of yellow ochre lines and circles depict the travels of Tingari Ancestors and the places they camped, and the red, pink and gray infill represents the majestic eroded landscape of the Western Desert through which they traveled. The grid of traveling lines and circles is like a net being pulled taught over the landscape implying that ancestral actions, specifically the travels of the Tingari mob and the great bush fire they set, brought the contemporary landscape, that Aboriginal people know intimately, into being.