The inspiration for these two mixed media textiles – ‘Jemila’s Forest’ and ‘Rolling out the Carpet of Hope‘ has been the United Nations conservation project to re-hydrate the deserts of the world’s by planting areas of saplings to draw water to the surface aiming to control desert encroachment.

https://www.unccd.int/actions/great-green-wall-initiative

The shift from desert to fertile land is an initiative that is a metaphor for the artist’s aims of rejuvenating creative thinking and using new materials and textile related processes to tell the story of change. 

See also ‘Rolling out the carpet for hope’ .