Two Patches

After a recent trip home to northern California, where I spent a good deal of time looking at and thinking about the quilts our family has acquired or purchased or made throughout the years, I became inspired to approach combining the material responses to the words, voice and/or home, in a fashion similar to a method one might use in bringing together the patches of a quilt. In light of what inspired this project: the rapid loss of world languages annually and the implication thereby of the loss of cultural diversity, bringing the objects that people chose as responses together through a craft method that emphasizes the human touch and moments where materials meet, felt metaphorically appropriate. Within a "quilted" work, the fresh spontaneity of chance unites with the subjective intention behind the materials people choose. These moments echo other moments in nature, moments that allow for change, important moments that are crucial in forward movement. The material choices people make can reflect the context from which they have come from -their cultural perceptions, their narrative.

patch 1

patch 1 (detail)

patch 2

patch 2 (detail)