The result is a hybrid; we use a totally artisanal technique combined with high-tech processes.
Buying the cotton thread is a challenge, since it is produced manually and could not be done with industrialized thread, we buy it from several artisans from different places in Mexico.
The texture, color, and tone of the material will enrich the final result of the piece. The threads are wound manually on metal frames thread by thread. The completed frames are printed on complex printing machines designed for other purposes; we take advantage of them to create art.
Once printed, the actual creation begins: we cut the threads, we tangle them, we comb them, we create holes, we leave empty spaces, sometimes we unwind long pieces that go beyond the frame, sometimes we create braided knots and comb inside or outside the frame.
We play with the different layers giving visual depth to the work or contrasting different images printed on the threads producing a new meaning, we play with the perception of the collector whom one day will see one thing and the next will discover another.
The technique is complex, sublime, audacious to the eye, and that is barely the beginning of the interesting part: the content; which images are suitable and worthy of being captured in such a complex technique.
We create ideas, edit photos, intervene with mix media, and go to complex methods of post-production of images, once digitally worked, we return to paint them, grate them, cut them, and do other artisanal processes; back and forth, back and forth.
The result, a large piece of a couple of meters created from simple threads; in front of us, tells us so much and communicates so much; given the diverse and complex techniques that were used. Only then we are satisfied.
Standing there looking at it face to face, remembering the arduous process from its conception until we see it in front of us and how each tiny thread linked to another and another finally transmits what it has to say, there at that moment we are even happy.