As a child, artist Sara Flores learned Kené—a sacred geometric design system of the Shipibo-Konibo of the Amazon—at her mother’s side. Her mother learned in much the same way. The art form, passed through matrilineal lines linking back to an ancient ancestral past, expresses an accumulated knowledge of medicine, cosmology, ethics, and community care.These compositions, entrancing in their detailed repetition, are now earning Kené a new international audience. Flores is currently representing Per...

As a child, artist Sara Flores learned Kené—a sacred geometric design system of the Shipibo-Konibo of the Amazon—at her mother’s side. Her mother learned in much the same way. The art form, passed through matrilineal lines linking back to an ancient ancestral past, expresses an accumulated knowledge of medicine, cosmology, ethics, and community care.These compositions, entrancing in their detailed repetition, are now earning Kené a new international audience. Flores is currently representing Per...