Carla Duarte is a contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, and garments. Her work investigates the ontological and ritual dimensions of materiality, engaging textiles, wood, and found objects as active carriers of memory, vitality, and transformation. Grounded in Buddhist philosophy, indigenous epistemologies, and cosmological frameworks of interconnectedness, Duarte conceptualizes her practice as a form of spiritual cartography: an embodied mapping of presence through the organization of matter in space. In this framework, ritual operates not as reenactment but as a methodology of reorientation, positioning material arrangements as sites of care, reflection, and relational inquiry.