Description Dorothy Robinson Napangardi c. 1956-2013 Sandhills, 2007 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas 125 x 266.5 cm Provenance Painted in Alice Springs, NT, 2007 Private commission through Boomanulla Vern Williams a relative of the artist by marriage; accompanied by a suite of twenty four colour photographs of the artist painting the work (one signing). Private Perth Collection. In this work, Dorothy has used blue to represent water, red for the earth, and yellow of the spinifex grasses found across her country. This painting is a representation of a journey across country: Mina Mina, to the far west of Yuendemu. This country is significant to Napangardi and Napanangka women, who are the custodians of the dreaming that created the area. The dreaming describes the journey of a group of women who travelled east gathering food. The abstract qualities of the painting represent a strong narrative basis for the work. Linear tracings across the canvas mimetically trace the movements and activities of the Women Ancestors as they dance their way through Spinifex and over sand hills, repeating the natural formations of the environment and as such deal very much with the real as opposed to the abstract. Ref, Vivienne Webb, 'Form and Content' in Dancing Up Country, MCA exhibition catalogue, pp72, 73.