FIELD NOTES / BWA / Southern Africa
Botswana
Painted rock & sacred hills.
START WITH A PLACE
Tsodilo
Tsodilo preserves a concentration of rock paintings within a landscape of continuing spiritual importance. Its surfaces should be approached as cultural records, not as an anonymous pattern library.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare a painted panel with the full rock face and hill around it. How does a change of viewing distance alter what becomes legible?
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Limestone paper#eee7d8oklch(0.929 0.021 85.945)
Warm sediment#c6ad86oklch(0.760 0.060 78.678)
Earth ochre#a36545oklch(0.568 0.092 47.550)
Weathered slate#657d79oklch(0.569 0.029 184.084)
Carbon ink#282b2boklch(0.286 0.004 196.917)