"The title Medicine Pocket refers to Country. The Gija name for this place, Mendoowoorrji, resonates with the Ngarranggarni, more generally known as the Dreaming, the parallel time dimension in which plants, animals and landscapes were created and in which the laws governing much human behaviour were instituted."
— Georges Petitjean, Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p. 14

"Mendoowoorrji is the general name given to the line of hills between Thoonbi and Thoowoonggoonarrin...an important camping area before the arrival of Europeans. It is part of the artist's mother's dreaming. Two dreamtime men hit each other with sticks there and became part of the country."
— Linda Michael, Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p. 134

"In the painting Mendoowoorrji – Medicine Pocket 2004, Bedford evokes the narrative that embodies a hillscape...The 'living water' found along these hills is suggested by the luminosity or transparency of his paint, achieved through his wet-on-wet technique...This became a characteristic of his paintings made after 2004."
— Vanessa Merlino, Head of Research, D'Lan Contemporary