Christina Hattler
Volar, Found Object Series, 2020
Hand Spun Native Oaxacan Cotton, Peacock Feathers, Fern Branches, Rock, Elastic Band 70 x 40 x 10 cm
An ongoing series of weavings created with found objects. I begin this series during the pandemic and worked with things I had lying around the studio and house along with objects i found on trips and walks. Palm, shells, hand-spun native Oaxacan cotton, wood, sticks, peacock feathers, rocks, moss, takeout chopsticks, lemongrass, and seed pods. Walking within and convening with nature is an important part of my life. Weaving these items into sculptures and tapestries helps me remember specific journeys and moments in time, a woven memory.
Christina Hattler
Piece 001, Found Object Series, 2022
Sanseveria Fiber, Oaxacan Native Cotton, Thread, Oyster Shell 86 x 17 x 4 cm
An ongoing series of weavings created with found objects. I begin this series during the pandemic and worked with things I had lying around the studio and house along with objects i found on trips and walks. Palm, shells, hand-spun native Oaxacan cotton, wood, sticks, peacock feathers, rocks, moss, takeout chopsticks, lemongrass, and seed pods. Walking within and convening with nature is an important part of my life. Weaving these items into sculptures and tapestries helps me remember specific journeys and moments in time, a woven memory.
Christina Hattler
Huesitos (Little Bones Quilt), 2021
White linen, hand cut and hand sewn, filled with pochote fiber procured in Oaxaca, Mexico 290 x 270 x 4 cm
The Pochote tree is a native a species to Mexico and is particularly sacred within the Mayan culture. Souls of the deceased ascend to the heavens because the tree is at once connected to the underworld, heaven and earth. Annually, the large tree produces pods full of a silky fiber which is an undervalued natural resource in the region. This quilt is the result of a long exploration of the Pochote tree, its cultural and historical relevance and its potential economic usefulness for cottage industry production and to local communities as a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers. These quilts are made with hand cut shapes which take the form of bones, joined together and express death as only one part of an eternal cycle of transformation in the cosmos. They are filled with hand procured and processed Pochote fiber and when these quilts cover us, they simultaneously allow us to be one with the underworld, heaven and earth, the universe.
Christina Hattler
Inner, 2024
Hand Pleated silk with natural dyes silk organza thread Electrical wiring Light Bulb Iron frame 26 cm Wide x 33 cm Tall
Entities reveals the invisible threads of universal connectivity in perpetual transformation. This body of work merges traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore mysticism, feminism, and the continual metamorphosis of the natural world. Through a ritualistic process of making, layered and floating surfaces emerge, textural fields that suggest unseen forces, emotions, and energies shaping existence. These entities hover around and within us: feelings, expressions, and realms beyond sight or explanation. The work asks if we could perceive these subtle dimensions of being, what forms might they take, and how might we recognize ourselves within them?
Christina Hattler
The Void, 2024
Hand Pleated silk with natural dyes silk organza thread Iron bar 133 W x 138 L cm
Entities reveals the invisible threads of universal connectivity in perpetual transformation. This body of work merges traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore mysticism, feminism, and the continual metamorphosis of the natural world. Through a ritualistic process of making, layered and floating surfaces emerge, textural fields that suggest unseen forces, emotions, and energies shaping existence. These entities hover around and within us: feelings, expressions, and realms beyond sight or explanation. The work asks if we could perceive these subtle dimensions of being, what forms might they take, and how might we recognize ourselves within them?
Christina Hattler
Capullo, Para Esconderme y Descansar, 2025
Hand Pleated silk with natural dyes silk organza thread Iron bar 26 W x 232 L cm
Entities reveals the invisible threads of universal connectivity in perpetual transformation. This body of work merges traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore mysticism, feminism, and the continual metamorphosis of the natural world. Through a ritualistic process of making, layered and floating surfaces emerge, textural fields that suggest unseen forces, emotions, and energies shaping existence. These entities hover around and within us: feelings, expressions, and realms beyond sight or explanation. The work asks if we could perceive these subtle dimensions of being, what forms might they take, and how might we recognize ourselves within them?
Christina Hattler
Motherboard Quilt, 2025
Silk, Natural Dyes, Gold Metallic Embroidery Thread, Pochote Fiber 104 cm wide x 172 cm long
The Pochote tree is a native a species to Mexico and is particularly sacred within the Mayan culture. Souls of the deceased ascend to the heavens because the tree is at once connected to the underworld, heaven and earth. Annually, the large tree produces pods full of a silky fiber which is an undervalued natural resource in the region. This quilt is the result of a long exploration of the Pochote tree, its cultural and historical relevance and its potential economic usefulness for cottage industry production and to local communities as a sustainable alternative to synthetic fibers. Hand quilted silk organza naturally dyed with color which is derived from the fiber pod of the Pochote tree. The quilt is filled with hand procured and processed Pochote fiber. It is embroidered by hand with gold metallic thread in a freeform abstract labyrinth of inner connected golden lines, a Motherboard connecting us as the Pochote tree does, simultaneously to the underworld, heaven and earth
Christina Hattler
Mother Mountain, Axis of Two, 2026
Hand Pleated silk with natural dyes, thread, mixed media base structure 40 x 33 x 30 cm
Mother Mountain is a new body of sculptural work that reflects on the mother as a powerful, mythic presence, an inner landscape we spend much of our lives trying to understand. I am a mother, and I have a mother; this dual position shapes the emotional and symbolic terrain of the series. Across cultures, mountains are sites of origin and creation, places where the earthly and the divine meet. They are sources of water and life, embodiments of ancestors, and metaphors for endurance, protection, and spiritual ascent. Many civilizations have understood mountains as an axis mundi, a cosmic center linking heaven, earth, and the underworld. In this series, the idealized mother becomes a metaphorical mountain: stable yet flowing, nurturing yet formidable, a life source shaped by time and pressure. The title also subtly echoes the Sierra Madre, grounding the work within a Mexican landscape of maternal strength and continuity.
Christina Hattler
“Mother Mountain, Protection”, 2025
Hand Pleated silk with natural dyes, thread, mixed media base structure 16 x 13 x 21 cm
Mother Mountain is a new body of sculptural work that reflects on the mother as a powerful, mythic presence, an inner landscape we spend much of our lives trying to understand. I am a mother, and I have a mother; this dual position shapes the emotional and symbolic terrain of the series. Across cultures, mountains are sites of origin and creation, places where the earthly and the divine meet. They are sources of water and life, embodiments of ancestors, and metaphors for endurance, protection, and spiritual ascent. Many civilizations have understood mountains as an axis mundi, a cosmic center linking heaven, earth, and the underworld. In this series, the idealized mother becomes a metaphorical mountain: stable yet flowing, nurturing yet formidable, a life source shaped by time and pressure. The title also subtly echoes the Sierra Madre, grounding the work within a Mexican landscape of maternal strength and continuity.
Christina Hattler
Tree of Life, 2025
Hand pleated silk, natural dyes, semi precious stones, crystals, pearls, antique glass, thread, iron bar 200 x 50 x 90 cm
A tree is a portal, at once connecting us to the heavens, earth and underworld. The soft, feminine form in continuous motion evokes the Virgen de Guadalupe, a protector and symbol of the divine feminine in Mexican culture. A silhouette sometimes found in tree trunks where small altars are created in her honor. Mythical Duendes (elves) also move freely between worlds through the openings in tree trunks. Entities hover around and within us, realms beyond sight or explanation. If we could perceive these subtle dimensions of being, what forms might they take, and how might we recognize ourselves within them?
