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At one point, Abdiel Figueroa Reyes lets loose, his limbs rippling like spun silk.

Though the sculptures, which she continued making through 2018, evolved in composition over the years, Chase-Riboud created each using the same technique, manipulating thin sheets of wax into towering geometric forms, then casting them in bronze and draping them with skeins of spun silk and wool.

I thought of Bejashvili’s swift gestures as she held a white strand of newly spun silk in her small fist, the thread so strong neither of us could break it; I recalled Kipshidze pacing her studio, her voice quiet and almost somber as she showed me a piece from which faces were cut from bright fabric.

Her long braid ended with a finger-size curl that looked like spun silk.

His hair was the pale, nearly translucent color of spun silk.