Weaving together the high-tech and the handmade, Anna Chupa produces textiles that hold memory, meaning, and mathematics in a provocative balance. Collecting fragments of architecture, botany, and cultural icons through her camera lens, Chupa meticulously deconstructs and reassembles them into photographic montages that become the basis for quilts, wall-hangings, and garments. Ranging from kaleidoscopic tilings that evoke micro- and macroscopic worlds, to portals that open onto sprawling landscapes like the Camino de Santiago, Chupa borrows strategies from Byzantine painting, Cubist collage, and voodoo altars to infuse her work with a sense of visual overload and astonishment. By embellishing her objects with free-motion quilting and other ornamentation, she invests them with a physicality that raises questions about hand-labor within a digital landscape.

















