While some of Ray James’s paintings feature geometrical designs, others are remarkable for its organic and fluid formations.
While some of Ray James’s paintings feature geometrical designs, others are remarkable for its organic and fluid formations. While still conveying a conceptualisation of the topographical space, the sensation of movement (or, in more contemporary terms, the perception of the optical illusion) created by his paintings can be ascribed to the artist’s aim to capture, through the visual language of indigenous iconography, the spatial progress of the Tingari elders as well as the way in which the Tingari Tjukurrpa designs would move and undulate hypnotically when applied to the bodies of young men performing ritual movements on ceremonial occasions.