Installation at 2010 Gallatin Arts Festival
Exhibition title: Chaos and Order
New York, NY

Accompanying text:

You are welcome to sit, make use of the quilts, read, chat and enjoy the space.
I also invite you to participate by taking one of the quilt squares on the loom bench and/or contributing a piece of your own discarded cloth to the basket below that will be turned into quilt squares as a gift to others throughout the week.

In my practice of weaving and stitching, I explore how labor rights, community, ecology, and meaning shape and are shaped by the craft of turning fibers into textiles; how objects and values circulate, interact, and evolve moving through spaces of homes, bodies, and art worlds; how cloth enables simultaneous engagement with the world and an inward focus/protection/comfort; the web of production, circulation, meaning-making, consumption, and use that enables me to bring a piece into being; and social change as collective and individual in an interdependent world.

In quilting I find beauty and liberation in the ability to take something apart in order to create something new – life from the discarded – materiality as transformation – the knowledge that amidst constraint and chaos we have an abundance of choice in how we produce meaning, objects, and social lives.

I will be present Wed 1-6pm and Tues, Thurs, Fri 2-7pm