https://coprosperity.org/chicago/2024/12/6/entre-ritos-y-portales

Reflejos (Reflections), 2024

This is not an invented language; it is born of ritual. Ritual, as continuous practice, becomes a way of creating and inhabiting new realities—bridging past and present, object and action, sound and silence.

Shapes, portals, bodies, performance, all come together creating unified encounters.

In Quechua:  

Thread is language, weaving stories across time.  

Embroidery is conversation, stitching complexity into being.  

Echo is sound, resonating through space.

Reflejos (Reflections) explores the transformation of shapes, objects, and spaces through the interplay of sound, and performance. The ceramic forms serve as both vessels and instruments, activating presence through rhythm and movement.

Through the process of Desencanto, objects are stripped of their utilitarian purpose and imbued with new meaning. This rhythmic and physical reimagining reveals the intricate relationships between form, function, and meaning. How do we engage with objects once they’ve been reshaped and redefined? What truths can emerge from new transformations?

“It is through listening that transformation is possible.” —Pauline Oliveros