About

ektor garcia is always working. Drawn to handmade, labor-intensive processes, the artist took on the practice of crocheting over two decades ago as a self-taught skill. The ability to work alone with a single hook anywhere and anytime was particularly captivating for garcia then as it is now. In this way, garcia’s time-intensive creative process has been a platform for emancipation. Long periods of time in the studio grant garcia both the permission and the privilege to be alone, temporally immune from the demands of contemporary society and immersed in meditative, almost hypnotic creative …