Arcelia Barbero is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Guadalajara, Jalisco. She began her career in 1996, creating unique mirrors using a technique called karpastado, which combines cardboard and papier-mâché. Her two most recent projects are Formas de habitar el paisaje (Ways of Inhabiting the Landscape, 2020), a textile exploration of urban life that highlights individuals working in public spaces; and Textures of my silence, textures of my voice, an introspective and abstract log of time. In this series, each stroke, symbol, and layered surface reflects an emotion or experience from her life. Overlapping papers and fabrics reference skin and scars, while symbols become words, networks turn into poems, and boundaries trace infinite possibilities — all stitched together with the warm voice of thread.