Entorno Quieto 5 (Stillness 5)

In this work, Olga de Amaral aligned 284 separately woven ribbons. As light travels through the spaces between them, a shifting, rippling pattern appears. It belongs to a series called Entornos (Environments), in which Amaral experiments with defining space by creating weavings that can function as walls or alter our experience of a room. She explains: “As I build these surfaces, I create spaces of meditation, contemplation, and reflection . . . Tapestry, fibers, strands, units, cords, all are transparent layers with their own meanings, revealing and hiding each other to make one presence, one tone that speaks about the texture of time.”