Fiberworks - A Celebration of South African
Fiber and Textile Artists

Title: Landscape: On fire

Description: Stylised depiction of a veld fire. Part of a series concerning the devastation to nature by fire.

Title: Last rose of Summer

Description: Part of a series. Machine pieced and machine quilted. Raw edge appliqued.

Title: Barren Mountainscape

Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

Title: Global Warming

Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

Title: Acid mine drainage.

Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

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Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

Title: Cloning: Genetic pollution 

Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

Title: De-constructed landscape

Description: Part of a series of 12 textile wall hangings with the title: Reflection: Topographical destruction

Title: Burnt Trees 2

Description: Part of a series about the devastation of veld fires.

Title: Tree: Koffiebaai

Description: Part of a series about individual trees.

Title: Tree:  Lonesome and old.

Description:

The shapes that appear on the rock wall that forms the body of the skirt, illustrate the San belief that the female apron (seen on the right of the skirt) was filled with fertile potency and often worn by the male shaman in addition to his own loincloth (seen on the left of the skirt) when trying to access the spiritual realm through trance. This placing of male an female aprons and loincloths on either side of the skirt is deliberate, as it brings them together when tied at the back, symbolising the importance of both male and female energy in creating the balance of life.

Paul Schutte