About the Artist | Miriam Londoño

Londoño works with cotton and flax fibers; the fibers are beaten in a paper mill for several hours, creating a fine pulp. Different additives are then introduced to the pulp to achieve consistency and colors that do not fade with light.

She then adds pigments to the pulp in separate bowls to achieve the colors of her choice. Each color pulp is then poured into an applicator bottle such that she can “write” with it, typically onto a screen (similar to a cheesecloth). When the writing is dry, she lifts it from the screen and adds a varnish. 

Works featuring multiple colors can be created over a long period of time. When creating works with thicker lines of text (like works from the Invasive Words series), Londoño typically writes the words separately, and then layers the compositions.