22 Portales

A Geometry of Coherence

22 Portals: A Geometry of Coherence

An exhibition of textile portals for CDMX Art Week 2026  

Rewire Lab, 317 Calle Amsterdam, Condesa, Mexico City

22 Portals is an immersive textile exhibition that explores how materials can tell stories and create harmony.

Each of the 22 pieces is inspired by the Tarot’s major arcana and reimagined through sacred geometry and Zapotec cosmology. Every portal is hand-made using natural and ancestral materials such as cotton, wool, agave fiber, corn, leaves, seeds, earth pigments, indigo, coffee, stone, and copper thread.

These works are designed as “portals” — spaces you don’t just look at, but feel. Through pattern, texture, and rhythm, each piece invites the body into a state of balance and presence.

The experience is fully immersive. Each portal is paired with a specific sound frequency that visitors access through self-guided audio and short meditations. The sound is designed to create coherence between the person and the piece, allowing the body to tune into the material and the story it carries.

The collection is guided by seven animals from Zapotec tradition: the eagle, jaguar, deer, bat, snake, butterfly, and hummingbird. Each one carries a quality of transformation, protection, or renewal.

22 Portals is an experiment in how art, material, and sound can support well-being. It is a journey through 22 thresholds of change — a textile map for reconnecting with nature, culture, and the self.

For CDMX Art Week 12 of the first textile portals are available to be experienced.

The 22 Portals project is an ongoing co-creation project between mesoamerican cultures and their craftsmanship. The next co-creation will be between the Mayan embroiders and weavers of the Yucatan and Quintana Roo.

The Concept

At the heart of the project is a simple truth:

Thought is a waveform seeking geometric resolution.

A pattern finds coherence the moment the waveform settles into harmony.

Each of the twenty-two woven portals is designed as a harmonic lens:

  • Geometry becomes the tuning fork.

  • Color and symmetry stabilize attention.

  • Materials carry tension and contrast, acting as conductive pathways.

  • The viewer’s own field entrains with the pattern through stillness.

Thus, 22 Portals is not a fortune-telling deck, but a living textile journey that mirrors the movement of awareness from fragmentation to coherence.

Each piece is accompanied by a brief poetic statement — not a meaning, not a definition, but a resonance. 

Material and Cultural Integration

  • Wool spun and woven by Zapotec artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico

  • Plant dyes: mangrove, marigold, mesquite, huizache, clay

  • Natural inclusions: leaves, small stones, sticks, earth pigments, seeds

  • Copper thread woven as accents of conduction and symmetry

  • Zapotec symbolism and cosmology grounding each card in the seven directions

  • Sacred geometry & mathematics guiding proportion, division, and layout

Each textile becomes a unique intersection of ancestral craft, mathematical structure, and contemplative design.

Structure of the 22 Portals

The portals move through a harmonic sequence reflecting:

  • the major tarot arcana archetypes, reinterpreted as geometry

  • the Zapotec directional cross (7 sacred animals ~ jaguar, snake, bat, deer, eagle, butterfly, hummingbird)

  • Sacred geometry, mathematics and harmonic states (collapse, expansion, coherence, inversion, union)

Every portal holds a different state of coherence 

  • a moment in the movement from contraction to expansion, oscillation to clarity, fragmentation to unity.

How Visitors Experience the Exhibition

Daily Hours 10am-5pm — Self-Guided Audio Journey

Visitors can walk through the exhibition with a guided audio meditation, allowing them to experience each portal as a coherence field:

  • slowing perception

  • settling attention

  • inviting breath-based attunement

  • experiencing each textile as a meditative gateway

This creates a quiet, introspective experience of art as fieldwork.

Bio

Maz  is a textile artist and founder of Design By Nature, a studio in Oaxaca Mecico dedicated to exploring the relationship between nature, pattern, material, and human perception. 

Her work bridges traditional printing and weaving practices—particularly those learned in collaboration with Zapotec artisans in Oaxaca  and through studies in Japan—with contemporary research into natural fibers, plant dyes, and conductive materials. 

Through this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, she investigates how coherent textiles can support healing, grounding, magnetism, focus, and contemplative presence. 

Her ongoing research integrates art and science to better understand how textile structure shapes the way we feel and show up.

With her project 22 Portals: A Geometry of Coherence, she brings this work to a wider public, inviting people to experience textiles not only as objects of beauty, but as immersive fields of stillness and resonance.

22 Portals is a textile cosmology — a woven journey through coherence.

It brings together mathematical proportion, Zapotec lineage, sacred geometry, natural textile sand materials, copper conductivity and a contemplative narrative.

Each piece is a portal: a geometry of stillness, a mirror for the observer, a field where patterns resolve into harmony.

Through weaving, color, symmetry and presence,

22 Portals invites visitors to experience art not to be consumed, but as a living meditation —

…a quiet return to the center where all directions meet.