Artist Sarah Rosalena has completed a monumental 27-foot tapestry titled "Threading the Boundless: Omnidirectional Terrain" (2025), commissioned for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) new David Geffen Galleries. The work utilizes an industrial-scale jacquard-rapier loom to weave complex patterns that distort NASA satellite imagery of Earth and Mars. By blending her Wixárika maternal weaving traditions with computational craft, Rosalena transforms scientific data into a tactile, atmospheric landscape that challenges traditional methods of planetary mapping.
This commission is significant as it highlights the integration of Indigenous knowledge with cutting-edge technology within a major institutional framework. Rosalena’s practice subverts colonial histories of cartography and extraction by re-centering the human hand and ancient textile traditions in the digital age. As a permanent installation in LACMA’s high-profile expansion, the work signals a growing institutional commitment to artists who collapse the boundaries between craft, science, and digital media.