What has interested me most about the different capacities or functions of models we have discussed is how they can, both make us feel and think, through various correlated ways. Models offer us different representations of reality, allowing us to become aware of the spatial paradigms involved in the production of space, and how this production affects us. Models activate our sense of space and our associations with different spaces; they allow us to develop a more intertextual or relational understanding of different spheres of our experience–be they cultural, political, religious, sensorial or aesthetic. I find the potential models have of allowing us to develop new associations with the materials we come in contact with and the spaces we inhabit to be a really important component.

I am interested in exploring yarn as a modeling material and as a medium to consider its significance in many parts of the world, specifically in Mexico, where it has had a major impact as a light industry on the cultural and economic spheres of many people.

The image above is of a town in Mexico where I grew up. The three cones of yarn serve as a kind of monument to the textile industry that helped modernize this once small village into a powerful producer of textiles.  The text reads: Welcome. Roundabout of friendship. I am interested in developing a model that can interrogate the material from a critical perspective through tactile engagement and visual representation.

I plan to create a model that can be inhabited by people, and which will allow them to create their own entryways and exits. Additionally, I am curious to see if the model is successful in allowing people to develop new associations with the material.  It would be interesting to see if the model can provoke some reflection in relation to the other models in the exhibition, or at lest inform people’s experience of it.