In this piece, the theme is a wonderful story about female creative power told in the Djanggawul cycle of stories by the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land, Australia. Two sisters, known collectively as Wawilak (as is the place where this occurred), were walking about when they came to a waterhole where the rainbow serpent Julunggul lived. Now one of the sisters was heavily pregnant, and as they camped for the night, her aters broke and some of the fluid seeped into the lake, awaking Julunggul from her slumber. She became angry at the desecration of her sacred place and began to rise up, pushing the flood waters ahead of her. Seeing the rising waters, the sisters began to panic and started dancing, causing the younger sister to begin to menstruate. Julunggul became enraged and swallowed the two sisters up, disgoring them as sacred boulders in the desert. For me, this myth is one of the world's great classics - I have depicted the two sisters having walked across the milky way, and deep under the earth Julunggul awaking from her slumber. The earth herself also bears water towards the centre of the piece, completing the mandala of female blood-and-water magic so common in ancient belief systems...