\u201cAs a handweaver who\u2019s very interested in examining textile from digital media, I really wanted to make a work that really invoked the terrain, but that also put land and cosmos in all these different directions,\u201d Rosalena said. \u201cFor visualizing space, gazing at the cosmos or looking above means to be grounded on Earth, and there’s an exchange between transmitting and receiving from above and below, of threads going up and down, over and under, and visualizing a planet. When looking at the work, there are no directions, there’s no compass, therefore no boundaries or borders. It is, in woven form, an attempt to break geospatial edges because it has its own form of layers and strata, of different sediment and minerals.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tapestry also addresses the use of technology to observe and represent land.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work is really a commentary on technology and what it means to be making work with technology at a time of with the rise of climate change, violence due to borders, future colonization,\u201d Rosalena said. \u201cSo here it\u2019s really a way to point back at us, to see how we understand land, understand terrain, understand Earth, future Earths. So much of this work is about speaking to power and how we think about land, visualizing land in multiple directions \u2014 thinking about Earth, weather, climate change, colonialism, and all the extractive technologies that are involved in how we see and understand land.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis work becomes a disruption. It really challenges the grid and these older cosmologies,\u201d said Rosalena, who has worked with the LACMA Art + Tech Lab since 2019.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI grew up in Los Angeles and was exposed to technology, learning textiles from my mother and grandmother and master weavers across the Southwest. I grew up with a very traditional weaving background, but my grandfather also worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I’ve always been very interested in the technologies that have made Los Angeles what it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The commission grew out of Rosalena\u2019s work with LACMA and years of conversations about textiles, technology and how land is represented.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis textile is really a result of many years of being in conversation about how textiles could operate as a form of disruption to the otherworldly in power: who visualizes, sees, names and carries land, whether it’s humans, non-humans, life, or death, and Earth becoming terraformed or us having to leave Earth,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is about life and non-life, but at the same time, thinking of it in terms of an infinite planetary landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n
LACMA is featuring \u201cThreading the Infinite: Omnidirectional Terrain\u201d in \u201c50 Works 50 Weeks,\u201d a series highlighting works that will be displayed in the David Geffen Galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a handweaver who\u2019s very interested in examining textile from digital media, I really wanted to make a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-422394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}