Standing as a bold and definitive statement of large-scale contemporary hand embroidery, this masterwork deliberately rejects academic canvas backings to establish an authoritative tactile dialogue on top of a weathered, pre-existing geographic document. Part of Ana Seggiaro’s acclaimed Cartographies series, the composition repurposes an old school map of South America, utilizing its aged, sun-dried skin-like texture as a visual laboratory for dense linear exploration. Seggiaro painstakingly re-architects the subcontinental layout through a meticulous, hand-executed embroidery intervention where overlapping concentric paths and chaotic elliptical vectors take over the dark background.
 
In the mid-2000s, Ana Seggiaro made her first small-scale collage works on paper. Starting from pages of books, maps, and scores, she carries out the first series intervened through embroidery and painting. In these works she finds the universe of cartographies, using maps as supports for the construction of imaginary geographies. This search leads her to tackle larger works. Thus, she recovers old school maps worn by use, where the black rubber acquires a broken texture, generating a topography like that of skin dried by the sun. She intervenes in these maps with abstract figures and images of paper airplanes that fly over unknown landscapes.
 
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