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These artists all shared a reverence for Pre-Columbian Andean arts and their artworks reflect its power to inspire bodies of work rooted in its ancient abstraction and its spiritual depths. In each artist we can view a contemporary response to this archaic alternative reality.

The textile arts of the ancient Pre-Columbian Andes are not well known, but made a significant contribution to the world’s artistic heritage. These mainly female anonymous artists would have been aware of their relationship with the cosmos, as shown in their deities and everyday natural forces. These textiles were …