Darby Ross Tjampitjinpa

Painted for Warlukulangu Artists at Yuendemu, Northern Territory
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands, acquired from the above

This painting is sold with accompanying Warlukurlangu Artist's documentation with descriptive notes that reads, "People break open minkirri (ants' nest) then burn the ants that run around with spinifex, then put them into parraja. The concentric circles which feature down the centre of the painting are various sites along the jukurrpa path, and the dashes of colour around the sites represent the flying ants swarming around the minkirri (ant nests)."

According to the documentation the orange markings represent Flying Ants walking around after their wings are broken off, the pink markings are the Ants flying and the green marks are the Ants flying at night.