Zareba’s work was selected as the winner from more than 1,200 entries for a competition sponsored by Refin’s DesignTaleStudio, a small creative research laboratory within the company that produces experimental products.

Zareba said that she saw the markings of plants and animals in ancient fossils in the patterns she created, hence the name “Fossil.”

Zareba also likened the movement in her design to that of animals in prehistoric cave paintings, a particular interest of hers, and suggested that this also accounted for her work’s broad appeal.

This work is all done in the early morning, and about half-past eight o'clock a man comes with a barrow to gather up the fallen sticks—there is always a big barrowful, heaped high, of them; and if not thus removed the accumulated material would in a few days form a rampart or zareba, which would prevent access to the cathedral on that side.

In the jungle, not far from the club, I marked out the spot for our bivouac around which I ordered a zareba to be constructed.