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By the end of the project, which ran from 2016 to 2018, the quipu included 18 ropes of thread comprised of countless knots.

The word quipu is Quechua for “knot,” a metonym for the inscription system of knotted cords developed in the Andes over 5,000 years ago.

When the ancient Incas wanted to archive tax and census records, they used a device made up of a number of strings called a quipu, which encoded the data in knots.

Vicuña has used variations on the quipu form repeatedly, and produced a monumental version for the occasion.

“Spin Spin Triangulene” will also include Ms. Vicuña’s quipus, which are knotted, weblike creations inspired by a centuries-old Inca system of communication.