EL ESTILO

Series of embroidered and ink-drawn works on paper, 2006.

El Estilo begins with traces of dress forms used in the construction and fitting of garments. Designed to stand in for the human body, these forms preserve its measurements and proportions while remaining anonymous, static, and incomplete.

In the series, paper operates as a second skin: a delicate surface that can be marked, pierced, folded, and sutured. Ink registers outlines and fragments, while embroidery passes physically through the paper, joining its two sides and leaving visible the punctures involved in the process.

The works move between body, garment, and pattern without fully representing any of them. What appears is the trace of an absent body—a reserved space defined through contours, seams, perforations, and partial correspondences. Drawing and embroidery become ways of approaching this absence while also giving the paper its own material presence.