In the first three years of the Papunya art movement, Johnny Warangkula produced a series of paintings of the desert landscape covered in native food plants and nourished by rain and rivers of freshwater. In mid-1972, at the time this work was created, a major topic of discussion amongst the artists in the Painting Room at Papunya was the idea of painting 'my country', that for most of the artists was quite distant from the township. These works are characterized by fields of intricate brushwork, where every section of the composition is meticulously detailed in layers of dotted and stippled paint.

Warangkula was one of the senior custodians of the major Rain Dreaming sites at Tjikarri and Kalipinypa in the desert bordering on Western Australia. This early work,, one of a number devoted to the subject by the artist, shows the rain as meandering lines through the middle of painting, weaving between water soakage sites represented by the sets of concentric circles. The interlocking meanders to either side represent lightning. Warankula's characteristic stippled application of paint produces a vibrant image reflecting the fecund nature of the landscape after rain: the patches of dotting indicate fields on native bush floods.

Please note that all First Nations Art is created from a so called ‘Birds Eye’ view.

This means that the paintings can be hung either horizontally as well as vertically.