Cloud Forest
San Gerardo de Dota
- Medium:
- Hand embroidery on cotton
- Year:
- 2025
A symmetrical V of forested slopes cradles a river of fog. Delicate thread-painting fades the distant canopy into cloud, a study in the quiet drama of the Talamanca highlands at dawn. Thousands of layered French knots give the near ridge its dense, mossy texture.
Stitched entirely by hand over about 6 weeks.
Free worldwide shipping · Each original ships hand-wrapped from Costa Rica.
Originals are priced by the time they take — $250 for each week of hand-stitching.
The place it was born
San Gerardo de Dota
9.5497° N, 83.8089° W
San Gerardo de Dota is a hidden cleft in the Talamanca mountains — a river valley of moss-draped oak cloud forest where the resplendent quetzal nests. At dawn the mist pours over the ridgelines and pools in the valley before the sun burns it off, the exact moment this piece holds. At 2,200 meters the air is cool and the forest drips with epiphytes.
View this spot from above →Every original ships with a photograph of this exact place and its GPS coordinates.
Location is our best guess from the landscape — refined for each original.