This painting depicts the story of two Kunia snakes during the Dreaming, the snakes traveled underground from Tjukula, a remote location far to the west of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), and headed north to Jupiter Well on the Canning Stock Route, passing through the artist's traditional homeland. As these ancestral snakes made this long and adventurous journey they created and shaped a number of significant land forms such as rockholes, creek beds, and valleys, many of which possess profound cultural and spiritual significance for the Pintupi and Ngatjatjarra peoples.

Doctor George has depicted these creator beings tightly compressed within the boundaries of the picture plane, so that the serpents appear charged with creative energy, ready to burst from the confines of the painting. The active gestural line of the Kunia Snakes mimics their Herculean creative journey through the Gibson Desert. This wonderful composition has a rigorous authority underlying its apparent simplicity, a quality oddly reminiscent of New York School painting: Rothko, Still, Kline, and Motherwell. For Aboriginal painters as well as Abstract Expressionists, the ability to paint with such authority comes from years of experience. But for Aboriginal artists this painterly confidence is rooted in the experience of ceremonial performance, the mastery of ritual design, song, and dance, to the point where ones very identity becomes infused with a totemic gravitas, rather than in a long and arduous process of artistic experimentation and stripping away of the nonessential.