"This austere late-career work by Mick Namarari sits in stark contrast to his early works, which were often defined by highly decorated objects and complex iconography. Having created this painting twenty years after he was introduced to synthetic paint and board, Namarari fills the expanse of the canvas with intermittent brush strokes of yellow and red ochre. Each mark illustrates the journey of an ancestral Bettong (a desert marsupial) as it hops toward the site of Tjunginpa. The trail of interspersed white dots evokes the flora the Bettong traverses. Namarari's abstracted forms provide a unique sense of the mysterious geography of the desert and the ancestral narratives that chart it.

Throughout his painting career, Namarari was renowned as an incessant innovator, unbound by social, cultural and market expectations. His willingness to experiment resulted in the rapid expansion of the parameters of Western Desert Art." (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 56)