The place depicted in this painting relates to a Ngari (Honey Ant) Tjukurrpa. The fine lines represent both the tracks of the honey ants and the sandhills that surround this site. According to John Kean:

Honey ants are important to the people of Central Australia. Not only do they provide a rare source of sweetness but, more significantly, their interconnected chambers exemplify important aspects of Indigenous ontology. The subterranean honey ant colonies epitomize the notions of community and connectedness at the heart of Aboriginal belief. Their underground presence gives force to the concept of the earth as the original life giver

Like the hub of a great wheel, Papunya is considered to be at the center where Honey Ant songlines, like spokes from distant lands, converge from Tatata in Pintupi country to the west; from Yuendumu in Warlpiri/Anmatyerr country in the north; from Akwerrperl (Korbula) in Anmatyerr country and Ngkwarlerlanem (“where the honey is”) in Alyawarr country to the northeast; from Lyapa, in Northern Arrernte country to the east; even as far as Utnadata (“the catkins on mulga trees”) in Lower Arrernte country, a site better known as Oodnadatta, in South Australia, six hundred miles southeast of Papunya.

My name is Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri. I was born about one mile west of Papunya at a place called Ngaaytjara. I was taken away by white people. I am from the stolen generation. I was a sick boy. I had no food and I was in a hospital in Alice Springs, then Adelaide, then Darwin. My father is Yala Yala Gibbs, a Pintupi man, and my mother is Ningura Gibbs Napurrula. She is from the Ngaaytjara people. I came back to Papunya in 1980. In 1981, my parents moved to Kintore. I love to DJ for the school and organize film nights for the kids.