Pandemic.

The work begins to be produced when the covid-19 pandemic began in 2020. It is created over a second-hand shirt where the fabrication label “made in China” is legible. The shirt as a socially imposed material element made to cover the chest of human beings, whose use is not differentiated by gender, race, class or age, it’s rather manipulated and restructured as a straightjacket.

There are a pair of lungs, which used to be thought of as the most vulnerable organs against the virus, where the needlework begins to propagate until it covers the area completely, referencing the disappearance and destruction of the human element. 

Time is referenced here, time marked by the incessant count of seams (deaths), which become a sort of meditation as a process of psychological healing in order to deal with the situation. In the end, the only thing that prevails is a circle that represents on the one hand the universe and on the other, the finite quality of humanity. The isolated seams are reiterated as the undeniable connection between man and everything. The work alludes to the Buddhist mandalas in which the process of creation is what persists, the present, the constant of change and where the final result is an object of destruction, detachment and impermanence.