Doris Gingingara was born in 1946 at Maningrida, in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. The inspiration for her art came from events from everyday life, the things she saw around the bush, Dreaming totems, sacred places and the ceremonial traditions of her people.

In this painting, the artist depicts the moment when termites come out of their anthills to search and form new colonies, an event that happens each year in Arnhem Land at the commencement of the wet season. The three earth-colored shapes representing anthills are placed next to views of the inside of anthills. In the centre of the composition the artist has depicted the flying termites while a gecko is, according to Aboriginal mythology, blowing water into the sky to form the clouds and lightening at the top of the image.