4 Tjungurrayi at Walakuritje Rockhole, 1998 by Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, 93x93cm Cat 2268LSN

Home for Linda was Lake MacKay, on the border of Northern Territory and Western Australia. She had lived a fully traditional life until she was a young teenager when her family left the desert during a period of severe drought in the 1960's. They were brought in to camps like Papunya are were given rations of food and water. In the late 1970's and 1980's many people returned to closer to their homelands, to places like Kiwikurra and Tjukurla in the western desert.

Home and connection to country is the preoccupation for all aboriginal people.

In this work Linda depicts four Tjungurrayi at the Walakuritje Rockhole. This is the Dreaming stories related to the Tingari and the Emu Men. The Emu Men were Creation Ancestors who travelled the country during the Tingari or Dreaming era. The Emu was the totem of her father, Rintje Tjungurrayi and stepfather, Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. These are the ancestral spirits beings who went on very long journeys, creating much of the desert landscape in Central Australia, and instructing the people about law and custom.