Mas Alla de la Antiguidad
(Beyond Antiquity)
Woven by Oscar Huarancca Gutiérrez
Designed by Evan Young-Walentine
Dimensions: 48" x 90.5"
Number of Colors: 27
Medium: Hand-spun alpaca wool
Completed: 2007
Price: SOLD
As a nod to tradition, this piece maintains the basic layout of the ancient Nazca textile that inspired it. The multiple layers create a sense of inward depth. The first of three planes of vision is the frame of a window, engraved with birds. At first identical, the birds develop individual markings as they grow upward. They become increasingly spaced apart, as if thinning out in the ascent through life. The second plane is made of the dark lines: each little diamond consists of four creatures, each linked to its neighbors through a passage, laterally linked by the universal symbol of the "continuous spiral." This plane acts as a transparent curtain through which we can see the third plane, the watercolor of blues, browns and pinks which is the world outside-through a gauss of antiquity. Clouds, mountains, trees, and lakes are often noted in the background, depending on the distance from which it's viewed.
HOME
|
|