Bronwyn Marshall paints Tjala Tjukurpa - Honey Ant Dreaming.
Bronwyn says this is a ‘travelling story’, which started further west, and
ended at Papunya, the ‘resting place’ of this Dreaming. The three hills at
Papunya form an important site, together representing the form of an ancestral
Honey Ant. This is Bronwyn’s grandfather’s country. Using a dotting technique that
is characteristic of the Western Desert painting movement, Bronwyn creates
symbols to depict the journey of women to collect the honey ants. The u-shapes
around the central roundels represents the minyma (women) who are digging for
the prized tucker, with their piti (coolamons) and wana (digging sticks) beside
them.