Digital collages, 2024, commissioned by the Humboldt Forum Foundation for the 99 Questions Gathering. (2024)

“El sueño del Telar que durmió por la tarde” (English: The Dream of the Loom That Slept in the Afternoon) is a song that echoes in the wind in the form of images that move, dance, and breathe while the eyes are closed. It is a dialogue between the machine, the natural landscape, and a very distant dream. How would a traditional loom describe what it feels when used by generations upon generations of weavers living amidst the mountains? How would I myself translate these images, deciphered in my own imagination, from a practice that has been lost over time? Starting from the premise that I do not recognize hierarchies between technologies (just as the microchip is as technological as a cassava sieve, since both are technical instruments developed to solve human problems), I begin to imagine what story a loom used at Union Textiles Semillas might tell.

First, the fire deep within the earth gives birth to life; then, the surface waters refresh the land with their shimmering movements; mountains rise from the sea, providing a monumental setting for this daily dance; in the sky, luminous bodies and stars flicker and fall in an endless loop; and finally, the sky meets the earth in a blaze of fire, melting everything back together.