The Quechua word for braid/trenza is sinpa. Braiding techniques have existed for millennia and were used to create bridges and textiles, and serve as social signifiers for Andean women. Having established the action of braiding as the focus of my original activation of space, I had the intention of inviting people in my community to be the ones to help fill it. It became a collective work, each person contributed to the activation of the space and the creation of the trenzas. The action of braiding and the movement of bodies became the work itself, the trenzas weaving together people, ideas, traditions, and generations.

They began in Miami, traveled to Chicago, then to Jauja, Peru.