Luis Acosta

Under the name 'Quipus', Luis Acosta presents his most recent series of paper strand objects. Originally a quipu was an assemblage of coloured knotted cotton cords of different lengths and used as a means of communication. By tying knots at particular points on these cords vast amounts of information could be recorded and passed on. Acosta’s objects vary in shape from circular to rectangular and are made of double strands of paper stitched together. He experiments with the different lengths and colours of the pairs of strands and the different knots he has tied into them.