"She had been waiting two thousand five hundred years. I was the first to answer her in thread."
She walked into the Museo Arqueológico Nacional with no plan. She left with an obsession. The Dama de Elche is the most enigmatic face in all of Iberian history – found in Elche in 1897, carved from limestone in the fourth century before the common era, she is a woman of extraordinary presence: jewelled, formal, serene. No one knows who she was. No one knows who made her. What we know is that she endured.
Conceived in a single moment of recognition – maker facing original – and realised over months of devoted craft, La Dama is a reimagining in cotton and jute of an object that has outlasted every civilisation that created it. Now she lives again, in fiber and knot, on a white wall in the present tense.
