En el presente la composición es el tiempo

I began weaving fragments of a spine that stretched to the floor—binding, pulling, wrapping. As the process unfolded, the structure emerged, and with it, my hands began to perceive both the past and the forms yet to come. I, too, became an event within the joints, carried by the arrangement of material encounters. This project started as an exploration of my personal connection to syncretic ancestor worship practices, understood as living sculptural systems—gentle, whispering arrangements that spoke of other kinds of moving forces. Perhaps when the world of the dead continues to echo within the fabric of the present, our understanding of living systems transforms into a constant weaving of interdependent relations, endlessly fragmenting and re-forming. En el presente la composición es el tiempo is an ongoing assemblage of sculptures that invoke the notion of a prolonged present from Gertrude Stein’s essay Composition as Explanation, in which montage serves as a tool where diverse times converge. The concurrence of different processes and materials creates hybrid bodies of artifacts that suggest a relational approach to unwind the historicity of machines into systems of meaning in motion.