Artist interview: Sarah Rosalena
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Artist Sarah Rosalena combines Indigenous craft techniques with emerging technologies to create innovative artworks. Her latest commission for LACMA is a 27ft tapestry that blurs the lines between land and cosmos.
Sarah Rosalena, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has created a 27ft tapestry for LACMA's David Geffen Galleries. The artwork combines her personal handweaving patterns with computer-generated satellite imagery of planetary terrains. Rosalena's practice subverts colonial systems of mapping and imaging by merging craft and technology. She used an industrial-scale jacquard-rapier loom to weave the piece, which features over 12,000 warp threads. The tapestry distorts satellite images of Mars and Earth, creating an imagined planetary landscape. Rosalena's work challenges hierarchies between textile, Indigenous craft, and technology, envisioning new worlds and possible futures.
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