Item #176

Empingated Knit Crop

In collaboration with world renowned artist Carlos Luna , the Empingated Knit Crop brings to life the powerful imagery from Luna’s piece Empingated . The artwork situates an anthropomorphic man within the jungle of life experiences, struggling to face his own mortality. As death reaches out to embrace him, the man tries to resist, hiding a knife behind his back in a desperate attempt to slay death and live on. The cycle of life and death is represented by “La Vida” (Life) and “La Muerte” (Death), with Luna’s use of the anglicized Cuban explicative “Pinga” hinting at the inevitable, chaotic outcome of the struggle. This design captures the tension between life’s forward motion and the inescapability of death.