This project explores hidden structures of reality through the meeting of Andean iconography, Platonic geometry, and the logic of printmaking. The etched patterns featuring birds, spirals, and geometric repetitions are inspired by pre-Hispanic textiles and ceramics, as well as Elena Izcue’s modern reinterpretations of these visual traditions.
Cosmogram, 2025 | Etching on zinc, printed on Fabriano Unica, suspended installation, 130 x 50cm
In Andean culture, such motifs were never merely decorative: they expressed a cosmovisión where every element of nature, from animals to abstract forms, was connected to the cycles of life and the cosmos.
Cosmogram, 2025 | Etching on zinc, printed on Fabriano Unica, suspended installation, 130 x 50cm
These designs are applied to the five Platonic solids the tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. Since antiquity, these perfect polyhedra have been linked to elemental forces (earth, water, air, fire, and the cosmos) and later, in Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), to the architecture of the solar system itself.
Cosmogram, 2025 | Etching on zinc, printed on Fabriano Unica, suspended installation, 130 x 50cm
Suspended in space like a cosmic mobile, the installation reflects both the Andean and European search for order through geometry, uniting cultural memory and mathematical precision in a shared vision of the cosmos.
Cosmogram, 2025 | Etching on zinc, printed on Fabriano Unica, suspended installation, 130 x 50cm
