Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche wax
90.0 x 90.0 x 4.0 （厘米）
35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 （吋）
The work is bound together through the common interest in structure and tactility – themes that seem also to connect Eduardo Terrazas' work as an artist and as an architect. This black and white work from the series Cosmos belong to the series of one component within the overarching enquiry Possibilities of a structure, that Terrazas developed in the 70’s. The work is is a system of geometric combinations. An outer circle represents the celestial sphere, while two intersecting diagonals both vertical and horizontal, that cross each other in the center of the work as an equate reference to the center of the universe, gravity, atomic energy and electromagnetism. The second circle in the center of the work refers to the earth while in the gab to the next other circle is a space occupied by further substructures like the forces of life on earth. These gabs are in this work divided in lack and with spaces while in other of Terrazas works they will be filled with multiple colors.
Terrazas’ art exists in a constant dialogue with the society that surrounds him. Like this work that applies a technique that has been used for centuries by the indigenous Mexican tribe Huichol. Wooden panels are covered with Campeche wax into which threads of yarn are laid to compose a pattern made by Terrazas. Terrazas works in series where he explores the possible variations of a chosen structure, which seem to become indefinite when lines and colors are juxtaposed.
