The Pankalangu Side Table is encased in Queensland walnut and copper scales, the copper tips of these scales shimmering when caught by the light. This side table is a mobile creature, with small brass wheels and a single drawer, reminiscent of a gaping mouth. The side table was the first of three Pankalangu works in the Broached Monsters collection that embody the imagined skin of the Pankalangu creature.

Pankalangu is one of three groups of creatures whom frequent Western Arrernte country. He is a territorial being that lives in the scrub and is completely camouflaged in the desert and bush. Pankalangu can only move with the rain, and is made visible when the water droplets that falls over his body are caught by the light, defining his form.

Prior to colonisation Australia was imagined, in the northern hemisphere, as a vast southern landmass and little else was factually known. Fabulous creatures, of incredible proportions and improbable anatomy, filled the void of knowledge. Fear of these creatures was legitimised when early British colonists started to learn of the frightful monsters of Aboriginal folklore. This fear of what lurked in the unknown fathoms of Australian bush land soon became a point of cultural confluence for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.