Colored Bubbles
Size: 45” x 45” (WxH) Ended year: 2020 Descripción: Colored Bubbles is a composition to play with color, piecing big curves and creating transparencies.
64
Size: 64” x 64” (WxH) Ended year: 2020 Descripción: I transformed the music from the song “When I’m sixtyfour” by The Beatles into colors. With that song I got married 17 years ago. Each block is one measure of the song and each color is a note, and the width of each line is the length of the…
Confetti Machine
Size: 48” x 54” (WxH) Ended year: 2020 Description: This is a quilt that I made during quarantine in an amazing workshop “Dancing with the Wall” from Irene Roderick…. in this difficult time, we need joy, rainbows, color, happiness and confetti machines.I used Posca pens to paint the flower stem and the confetti.
Apacheta
Size: 68” x 46” (WxH) Ended year: 2020 Descripción: For making this quilt I was inspired by the apachetas I saw when I was in Cuzco, Peru, on the way to Machu Picchu. An apacheta (from Quechua and Aymara) is a mound of stones placed as an offering to the Pachamama (Mother Earth). In these times that we…
VictorV
Size: 60” x 60” (WxH) Ended year: 2020 Descripción: The design of this quilt is inspired by Victor Vasarely art work.
November 1976
SIZE: 35” x 42” YEAR COMPLETED: 2019 I named this quilt “November 76” because is the Lunar calendar of my birth month. I painted every moon in each of the blocks. It’s hand-quilted. I think is the only “neutral” quilts that I have made and the only one that I did for myself .
Newton’s third law
SIZE: 32” x 48” YEAR COMPLETED: 2019 Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states that, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” In this way, in Nature for every force that exists, there is an equal and opposite counterforce. They are equal and opposite… one cannot exist without the other… This…
WHERE IS THE AUTUMN
SIZE: 65” X 64” YEAR COMPLETED: 2019 My favorite season is autumn, calm comes with its beautiful colors, colors that in my Chile are the red liquidambar leaves falling down…I miss those colors here in São Paulo, where everything is still green, flowered and with warm temperatures…so, where is the autumn?
COMPASSION
SIZE: 49” X 38” YEAR ENDED: 2019 In October of 2019, in my country, Chile, a social and political revolution began, caused by general discontent due to the existing social and economic inequality in society. This has led me to think about what virtues are key in a society and that therefore we should develop…