. Wak'a Rooms

Wak'a: is the Quechua word that denotes and refers to a sacred object or site.

Room: is a defined space that contains and protects.

Presence in craftmanshiop has always been the starting motive for my approach to making.
I consider clothing as architecture, as the closest inhabitable space for humans.
In this new body of work, conceived and realized starting in the Year of the Serpent, I utilize sacred textiles from the Andean mountains, the Mayan peninsula and the Japanese countryside in harmony with my own tea-dyed fabrics and other antique fibers and handmade textiles.

I am aiming for a seamless relationship between the textiles charged with cultural information and the hand-manipulated fibers that I cut and shape into habitable forms.
References to ancient shapes and utilazing traditional techniques we are constructing original garments to carry on the traditions they came from and the contemporary inspiration that my practice adds to them.