What happens when the ordinary is wrapped? When a personal textile, a piece of beeswax, an everyday material is gathered, shaped and bound into a bundle? This project explores how the profane can take on a sacred meaning through the simple and ancient act of wrapping.

BUNDLES draws from different strands of my practice and research: a deep study of indigenous textiles in Ecuador, and a long fascination with the ways the divine appears across cultures, in the humblest of objects and acts. The bundle, found across traditions and geographies, is one of those acts.

Often, offerings, or collections of magical elements are carried or presented in textile. And yet, textile bundling is also a way of protecting the sacred, like in the practice of tightly swaddling young babies in carefully prescribed ways, to guard them from evil.

In this first part of the research, bundles are approached as small, handmade objects for thinking forward. Intentions are shaped in beeswax and wrapped in personal textiles, so that the act of bundling becomes a way of actively projecting a future — not waiting for one to be revealed. Think ex-votos revisited.

This artistic research will culminate in a workshop and gathering in The Hague, Netherlands, in fall 2025, where participants will be invited to make their own bundles, and in doing so, to hold their intentions in their hands.