“Mahogany Travels“ and “Let's Go Green” bear Sanaa Gateja’s signature technique. First there is the collaborative studio production of hundreds ofpaper beads made from newspapers, booklets and magazines that the artist recycles, and which he paints, tints, or choses tokeep natural. Then the beads are stitched on barkcloth a textile that is made in a traditional way from the ficus tree which has astrong symbolic in Ugandan mysticism. The result are spectacular, haptic “tapestries” that are part of a series Gateja executed to celebrate the beauty of the Ugandan natural environment. Using vibrant colours, and mastering adynamic composition, the beautiful, haptic works diffuse energy and joy, pointing out, by defect, the poignancy of the creeping destruction of the environment in Uganda due to climate change, agricultural mismanagement and forest logging.