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Author Nayeli Vega

Date of creation 2026

Codes in Knots

A suspended series of carved wooden knots, each form standing in for a word — verb or noun — in an invented notation system built from knot shapes rather than characters. The project draws a direct line to khipu and other precolonial textile-based recording systems, translating their logic of knotted encoding into a contemporary sculptural alphabet. Shown in the exhibition "Digital Decoding: Digitality as Subject and Method" at Silent Green Kunstquartier, Berlin.

Codes in Knots

Reproduced with permission of the artist

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