Yalti Napangati was born in the Great Sandy Desert, sometime around 1970 and lived with her family as nomads in the desert. She now lives in Kiwirrkura, Western Australia, with her family and paints for Papunya Tula.

Yalti makes paintings of landscapes associated with Pintupi Dreaming stories. This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of Kiwirrkura. The parallel lines in this work represent the large sandhills that surround Marrapinti. During ancestral times a large group of women gathered at this site during their travels. While at the site the women made the nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made in the nose web. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Marrapinti the women continued their travels east to Ngaminya and then onto Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). The 'U' shapes represent women who camped at Marrapinti. While there they performed the dances associated with the site. The footprints are marks made in the sand while they were dancing The artist has depicted two hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies. The sinuous lines represent a creek.