In the early 2000s, many Yolŋu artists began experimenting with a style of painting that be-came known as buwayak. Literally translated as “invisible” or “faint,” the buwayak movement disguised figurative elements beneath the geometric clan designs or maḏayin miny’tji.

This painting refers to the same narrative of the dugong hunters Garramatji and Burrak that can also be seen in Wakuthi Marawali’s painting Gurtha Dhäwu | Fire Story 1969, but Napuwarri hides his figures beneath a swirling strings of diamonds, representing the sacred rock and sea of Yathikpa. According to the artist, there are thirty-four dugong hidden in this work.

This painting was commissioned for the 2017-19 Kluge-Ruhe Maḏayin Commission. It was awarded the Bark Painting Prize at the 2018 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.