The Finite in the Infinite is a collection of textile works and garments that weave together thirteen “seeds” of craft and knowledge, archived within the physical outcomes of the collection. It primarily showcases the “Hilo contado” works produced with Doña Nilvia, Flor, and Leidy’s community of embroiderers and their families in the town of Pisté, Yucatán.

The pieces draw on shared stories of nature and its relationship with making, cosmology, and numerology, creating templates that embed knowledge into visual form through creative coding. The collection explores shapes, motifs, and textures derived from primary research developed through collaborative making and styling with the embroiderers’ families, documented through a photographic practice that places the community at the center of the craft.

Vincularidad, the idea that humans and nature are inextricably bound, is a central material and conceptual theme of the collection. The materials follow natural cycles: cotton, hemp, and linen threads on aida cotton and beeswax batik prints, naturally dyed using palo de Campeche, cochineal, cempasúchil flowers, muicle, moringa, palo de Brasil, indigo leaves, and madder.

Additional elements include sisal fiber wigs, and hand-polished agave spines and cocoyol seeds.