The sense of journey from a mythological to a geographical context in these images led me to recall Gauguin's questions, "Who are we?" and "where are we going?" and "where have we been?" With this in mind the idea of time and history is important to the imagery. The ideas of these questions are different now than they were a century ago. The imagery communicates this idea with the direction and layering of the compositions.

Research into Australian aboriginal art itself informed my direction of how I wanted to communicate this idea and develop it in a unique way. The pictures that I have researched into conceal context and levels of meaning available to the inhibited but hidden from others. The significance of the pictures can only be understood by considering them in their context. It is not possible to read the symbols the contain like the letters of the alphabet; they are code. The symbols in these images are journey in itself. This is highly subjective and related to different levels of interpretation.

Communicating the strong reference I had with Australia aboriginal art helped lead me to the technique of "pouncing" which allowed me to create dots on the canvas in an accurate way by using acetate stencils of recognisable artwork. The exploration of this process developed with ink and bleach using palettes and different scales.