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In late 2020, my dear friend and great professional Megan Ballesty asked me if I could work on a couple of illustrations for a paper that CIPPEC was writting for Google.

The paper was about the future of work, considering the aspects of the current fourth industrial revolution, in what is called the global south. 

Direction framework was to emphasize the fact that the South has to develop it's own narrative and not just to implement solutions that worked in the North,

To portray this and the features of inclution / exclution, innovation and integration towards the future, my proposal was tu use the Quipu: an Inca device that was used not only to register data from the community and made by the community (as AI do now) but to also narrate events that are more complex than just plain numbers. 

The beautiful thing was that real Quipus were made my threads and knots.

To create this colorful Quipus, I used Roger Penrose's tiles and it's conceptual background.

These tiles were then be used to create as many different Quipus as we desired.

This was a very fun and extremely creative project and it led to a full year of work with CIPPEC's project on this very subject call FOWIGS (Future of work in the Global South).

All pieces were created and assembled in Adobe Illustrator.