This project arose from the idea of looking for a material or object to reconstruct or repair. Within the framework of the political, the poetic, the newspaper and time, I came up with the idea of making the cover of a newspaper. I decided to make it in cross stitch because it is a repetitive, mechanical activity that requires a very high investment in time to be able to be realized. Cross stitch is also related to the construction of an image through pixels, stitch by stitch. I liked to make a work that implied an activity typical of grandmothers or people who have a lot of time available, but that somehow had this dialogue with the digital in the way it was elaborated. In this sense, I think the pieces also speak of the time that news has today, some of which appear and disappear in the term of hours or minutes, which makes them not even reach a print, a medium that is considered by the new generations as something in disuse and is an option that few consider.

I chose the newspaper El Tiempo because its name refers directly to what the work is about. The process involved taking a digital image of the front page of each newspaper and processing it in black and white in special software to translate it into a fabric mold. The mold was designed to be the original size of the selected newspapers and have a “resolution” of 16 dots per linear inch. Once I had the mold printed to be the weaver’s guide, the “printing” on the fabric began. The whole process, which involves different translations (printed newspaper to digital, digital to digital fabric template, digital fabric template to printed fabric template, making the fabric), leads to the final image being diluted, just as it happens in our memory with different historical events, and in the end the traces or preponderant features of the images and texts remain.