In the 1970s, Doris Platt and her husband were cattle musterers at Marina Plains cattle station, south of Coen in Cape York Peninsula, where goannas were found in abundance. This painting, which is based on Indigenous sand-drawings, builds around striated bands that swell and contract like the contours of the landscape. It depicts the discarded skin of a goanna that lies flat on the ground, while its meat is cooked and eaten. Platt conveys the texture and patterning of the goanna’s skin through rhythmic, free-flowing white and cream lines, which move abstractly across the canvas. The bold, black passages of the painting evoke the skin of the artist’s people, as well as the fertile Cape York earth and the goanna’s charred remains.