Hamaca (2022)

Woven Banana Fiber + Jute Dyed with Cochineal
Hung on Birch Dowel
5 ft L x 35” W

Hamaca draws its name from the Taíno word for hammock—one of the few surviving threads of Taíno textile memory that endures in global language. Though no physical Taíno textiles remain, the word hamaca, carried forward in Spanish and English, holds the weight of ancestral knowledge and material practice.

This piece is a meditation on that survival. Woven from banana fiber and jute, dyed in cochineal, and suspended from a birch dowel, Hamaca evokes both the form and spirit of a textile meant to cradle the body—part net, part memory, part offering. The structure references a suspended rest, but also a lingering echo: of hands that spun fiber, of bodies that once swayed in warmth and rhythm, of a culture nearly erased yet still present in the weave of language.

This work holds space for what was lost, and what remains. A gesture toward the Indigenous Caribbean textile legacy that persists not in preserved cloth, but in the words we still carry. SOLD