Caída Libre
(Free Fall)
Woven by Oscar Huarancca Gutiérrez
Designed by Evan Young-Walentine
Dimensions: 47" x 89"
Number of Colors: 25
Medium: Hand-spun alpaca wool
Completed: 2008
Price: SOLD
One recurrent motif in the grand treasury of Wari weavings depicts two people connected along the top of the head. I reconstructed a series of these rectangular designs using a non-traditional coordinate system based on concentric measurements of angles, the polar system. In everyday life, we observe things in a basic Cartesian coordinate system, with x-, y- and z-axes defining space. However, Andean cosmology viewed the civilizations center (the capitol) as the center of the universe, and everything else radiating out from it. That premise drives this design, reorienting rectangular shapes along curves.
The colors are an added complexity, with four color sets defining concentric regions of the design, mirrored diagonally. Each color arrangement is distinctive in the mirrored image, which gives a personality to each face.
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