Southernafrica

The Lowveld in summer mist. This kind of landscape is generally called ‘savannah woodland’ as far as I know. It’s not the open savannah grassland you find in much of East Africa. Beautiful bushveld trees are everywhere - making up in perfection of form what they lack in height and girth. I see the potential to reverse the annihilation of natural spaces like this, done in the 19th and 20th centuries, as the population peaks this century and agriculture becomes denser and more efficient - allowing more and more land to be released back into a natural state. This is the flip side to the ecological doom that looms ahead. At this point we could go either way. If the people with the money decide, we know it will only go one way.

My Gran’s painting of her birthplace in Lesotho 🇱🇸 She had this to remind her from before my dad was born in 1941. The artist’s name looks like Heisl.

A piece by @cara.stacey designed to transport our Southern African traditional sounds into the realms of the string quartet.