This painting is a story about Kapi [water] Karrinyarra, [Central Mt Wedge] out Papunya way - soakage - our Dreaming from my uncle's [mother's brother's] side, private story.'This painting represents Water Dreaming (also called Kapi, or Ngapa Tjukurrpa), from Karrinyarra and Central Mt Wedge, north of Papunya. The circles are the water holes and the short lines are lightning. The lines connecting the water holes are water courses. This site is associated with rain making ceremonies.
The Clan Estate or Country known as Karrinyarra lies between Yuendumu to the north, and Papunya to the south. Karrinyarra, also called Central Mt Wedge, actually takes in a wider region that includes much of the Stuart Bluff Range, and is bounded to the west by the Siddeley Range. As with a small number of locations across Central Australia, Karrinyarra is an important hub. It is rich in water, animal and plant resources, and cultural complexity. This Country also represents an important cultural point of intersection, with Warlpiri, Ngalia, Anmatyerr, and Luritja peoples coming together to share in access to the resources, and to take responsibility for the Country and its Law. It therefore has a significant number of Ancestral Tjukurrpa that pass through, or originate from, and reside in this Country many features.
The Ancestral Beings travel from all directions, or arise from the Country itself. Two Men, Two Women, Dancing Women, Rain and Lightning, Goanna, Wild Cat, Wild Dog, Possum, and many, many more including Bush Plum, Bush Onion, Python, Two Snakes, and so on, perpetually participate in animating Country through their Law. These Ancestral Beings meet up with other Ancestral Beings, participate in all the domestic realities of being, participate in ceremony, or simply pass through. Some stop in their travels and remain; others arise out of a particular location and dwell there, or simply wander off. Each bears witness to the activities of the others and themselves and wherever they interact or dwell is recognised as a sacred site, and the en re region of Karrinyarra is thick with sacred places. The Tjukurrpa of Karrinyarra may be held by men or women only, or both men and women may hold together, universally, or through systems of complementarities; each gender group holding a part of the whole Tjukurrpa.

Designs for body paint, expressed through rock art, and held in ceremony, are reproduced by the members of the several clan groups that hold Karrinyarra.