Sarah Rosalena’s work bridges Indigenous craft traditions and contemporary technology, creating hybrid forms that challenge boundaries between handcraft and digital innovation. Drawing on her Wixárika heritage, she integrates ancestral weaving, beadwork, and basketry with tools such as Jacquard looms, 3D printing, and digital design software. By blending hand-dyed natural pigments with synthetic, pixelated color palettes, Rosalena produces textiles, ceramics, and beadwork that explore the shared logic between weaving and computational code, highlighting the dualities of warp and weft alongside binary structures. Her practice interrogates the intersections of tradition, technology, and power, questioning colonial frameworks embedded in scientific and artistic knowledge. Rosalena’s work examines how high and low technologies, human and nonhuman processes, and ancient and future forms can coexist, revealing hidden systems and infrastructures beneath everyday objects. Through generative forms, her pieces evoke weaving patterns, coil pot techniques, and pixel-based imagery that foreground both materiality and conceptual depth. By combining craft, computation, and experimental media, Rosalena reimagines Indigenous cosmologies within contemporary contexts. Her work reflects on climate change, artificial intelligence, and extractive industries, offering expansive, visionary perspectives that reorient viewers to the infinite landscapes of land, sky, and cultural knowledge. ...
