White Dwarf

White Dwarf uses four types of thread: smooth silk, rough palm fiber, shiny metal thread, and matte alpaca wool. Collaborators María Dávila and Eduardo Portillo deftly combined these raw materials to create a multilayered weaving in which each material symbolizes a different aspect of the artists’ experiences studying textile-making. A white dwarf star is an extremely dense star that burns white-hot as it collapses on itself. The weaving belongs to a series of works that Dávila and Portillo call an “imagined cosmos,” which also includes meditations on the seasons and times of the day.