Enchanted Matter is a myth-making machine. Built by Alaa Quraishi and Carlos Sabogal García, anchored to the Land of Enchantment, she suspends cultural realities, materializing the discomfort of belonging.

The builders first collaborated as undergraduates at the University of New Mexico. They then went to separate coasts: Carlos at CCA, Alaa to MIT for their M Archs. Carlos collected experience as a senior designer for Future Forms and taught at CCA, and Alaa at Design Earth, Lina Ghotmeh, and Antoine Predock, and taught as a Visiting Professor at UNM. 

She operates through serious play, cultural inputs outputting dreamy states of discomfort in belonging. The builders pull from their own stories to inform her: centering geopolitical edges, exploited labor, invasive ecologies churned into dreams.

The machine has mythologized the experience of a DREAMer through Menagerie of DREAMers (Rainosek Gallery, UNM, 2024) and DREAMers Portals (Paseo Festival, Taos, 2025). She manufactured Fragments of a Future Mythology (Cluster Crafts, London, 2025) and mechanized systemic surveillance in WITNESS: