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Bertha Otoya

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Bertha Otoya

Otoya was born in 1979 in Peru, and has been an artist at Creativity Explored since moving to the United States in 2007. She is an artist who often works in embroidery and sewing.

Otoya uses traditional Peruvian techniques to create quilts and tapestries, and has been learning new stitches at Creativity Explored. She has also started working with metal: creating portraits by embossing thick copper and tin foil, which she then nails to painted wood. She uses these functional black nails to draw attention to certain areas of her figures, such as earrings or eyebrows. Otoya enjoys the physical, repetitive processes of sewing and embossing patterns onto metal. Her subject matter draws from memories of her past and the Peruvian landscape.

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