“SymMetricas l order, the ever-present rule underlying Amaral’s work, transforms the irregular beauties of the natural world into ideal form. Fascinated by the shapes of rocks, streams, hills, mountains, and clouds, she finds inspiration in the broken textures and movements of the landscape surrounding her home in Bogotá... In her work, symMetricas l perfection and geometric rigor exist in tension with the free play of color and optical effects. From the steady rhythms and repetitions of the grid, shapes and patterns emerge, breaking loose from their structural mooring to float in shifting fields of overlays. Light seems to emanate from within the tapestries, sparking and fading in a continuous flicker across the surface. What we see in one moment changes in the next - an organic mutation of form into form. The afterglow of gold stamps the retina.”