For artist ektor garcia, no piece is ever truly finished—only paused. His sculptures, built from hours of crocheting, weaving and casting, resist the idea of permanence. In Loose Ends, garcia’s first solo museum exhibition in his home state of California, San José Museum of Art presents his sprawling installation, and more works, that embody his ethos of continual transformation.

“Loose ends for me—the expression, to ‘tie up loose ends’—is about the cyclical nature of coming back to things and leaving things loose and open,” he says. The show brings together some early and newly constructed works, reshaped and reimagined into an evolving, singular constellation.

The nomadic artist, born in Red Bluff, spent some of his youth in Mexico and beyond: “My family moved around a lot, and I move

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