Knots

I hold a strong link with the textile medium, which comes from my family background where textiles were very present due to my grandmother's work as a seamstress, and more generally as a marker of feminine domesticity.
I became particularly interested in "manta de cielo" (a kind of gauze) for its aesthetic characteristics coupled with the domestic weight it carries, being a textile best known for its use for straining and filtering liquids, storing food, cooking in general, and cleaning.

I started experimenting and settled on one particular process: the manta de cielo is smeared with a clay and glaze mix, modeled with or without a metal cable structure, and fired at high temperature, in a sort of game of transition of sculptural charge between one material and another.
The gauze completely burns out in the kiln, and the metal structure holds the sculpture together while the clay and glaze mature and bond, incarnating a shape that still answers to the identity markers of textile while having transitioned to another universe.