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Toksik:
A series of concentric circles in Aboriginal Art is usually (but not even nearly always) a campfire/camp/waterhole. It can also be a place where there's a big hole. Which seems likely due to there being a hole in yours, but who knows? I'd go with camp(fire) since there are people dancing, which is more likely to happen at a camp than at some random hole. (but if it's the hole where the rope goes in, it might be a waterhole/water symbol, since they were used, often, for rain-related ceremonies, and the dance could be some kind of appropriated 'rain dance')
People being made of smoke doesn't immediately ring any bells for me, but my dreamtime scholarship is pretty limited, and it's almost impossible to know all the stories from all the Nations, and so on.
That said, most Aboriginal Art these days is made by random people who aren't Aboriginals, or by Indigenous folks who aren't working within their tradition, just producing as much stuff as they can in styles which look 'traditional' (sadly, a lot of Indigenous people do not know where they are from or what their people are called/believe/etc, due to the racist genocidal policies of our lovely government [mostly, mostly in the past. mostly]).
So, for making your own: do whatever you want, that's what most people making them do. As long as you think it looks traditional, it's about as good as anything you'll get these days.
But here is a quick primer. It might be best to follow the advice contained within about using dots instead of elements which might be sacred if you are worried about misrepresenting a series of incredibly varied cultures, but I wouldn't stress about it too much, since you can't really know what's secret/sacred without being someone who knows what's secret/sacred, and that's a pretty difficult thing to be these days.
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