"La escalera" is a piece that alludes to embroidery samples called "dechado" in Spanish. Many of these pieces were made by little girls in their endeavors to learn how to embroider. Today, there are samplers that are the only trace of existence of some women.
I wanted to create a piece that spoke of the fragility and precariousness of existence through a naïve discourse. The nature of embroidering paper entails a meticulous handmade work. I am interested in creating pieces that reflect the process that they were made with, I like to make the hand present with the stubborn process. The patience and care for the embroidered paper is another reference to a precarious existence.The piece refers to a patience I have in my process that I sometimes resent. But I also think that there is a certain patience facing the tender end, or even a sort of neglect.
I want to speak of the unquantifiable, of the incommensurable overwhelming shiver. Naïveté becomes a celebration of precariousness: intuitiveness is the way that I have found to access a world that is prelinguistic. Of what is unnamed because it escapes language, and all of its flimsy words. I have found that the best way to reach what moves me is through intuitiveness, tenderness and naïveté. What links us to the world but have taken for granted. The surface is only grazed if not appreciated. Because we forget about it all, we forget the body, neglect our experience of the world and leave (live) it as an intellectual one. We will forget everything that matters before weeping for it. Dying for the invisible, that is metaphysics.
