multidisciplinary artist
THREADED LANDSCAPES
Creative Director | LOP - LOP Embroidery Studio | Colombia, 1994
Threaded Landscapes is a series of embroideries that pushes the limits of early machine embroidery, using digital tools to translate imagery into wearable textiles.
The project draws inspiration from the coffee culture of Quindío, Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Textile Narratives Through Digital Embroidery
The collection speaks through thread by reimagining the richness of the landscape: its light, color, and structural rhythm, as a tactile narrative that extends beyond the photograph.
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Embroidery as Cartography
Computerized embroidery serves as a design tool: each image is mapped onto a Cartesian grid, defining the design parameters: stitch type, color sequence, thread density, and direction.
Every stitch is calibrated to optimize thread luster, light reflection, and texture.
From Photograph to Thread
From field photographs of coffee farm homes, I developed a series of compositions, innovating embroidered techniques to replicate vernacular architectural details.
Carved wooden balconies, bahareque walls, and colorful façades are reinterpreted through controlled stitch direction, tonal gradients, and low-density threadwork, forming a tactile memento of place and identity.
Stitching Architecture
Field Photographs
Embroidery Renders
This project not only celebrated the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Quindío through embroidered storytelling but also introduced computerized embroidery to the region—bridging traditional imagery with emerging textile technologies. The result is a wearable archive that blends heritage and innovation.​
Translating Culture and Memory into Textile Art
Storytelling through Embroidered Stitches
From Utility to Identity
The Yipao, an overloaded Willys Jeep, became vital to Quindío's coffee trade, transporting goods and people through mountain roads.
Once a vehicle of labor, it now carries stories and stands as a symbol of cultural vitality and resilience.
An icon rendered through embroidered stitches, translating an utilitarian object into cultural expression.
From Nature to Pattern
Beyond its coffee roots, Quindío blooms with orchids, heliconias, and wax palms that thrive in this Andean soil, creating a vibrant portrait.​
These silhouettes evolve into stitched patterns that echo the rhythm of the landscape.
From Memory to Thread
Designed for eco-tourists, this collection integrates emerging technology while celebrating and preserving Quindío's coffee culture and collective memory.
The garments function as tactile, wearable artworks that translate local narratives into material form, allowing visitors to carry a fragment of the region’s living spirit.
