Quilt Stop2020
What stories about immigration are currently existing in our design work? Who is telling them? And most importantly, how are these stories being told? At what point does a person cease to be a person and become a number instead? Can empathy replace biases in our understanding of the world and how do we facilitate that change with our practice?
Rigorously analog; narrative; intimate; memories; born from found materials, often salvaged from garments of treasured origin; portable; laborious; and usually made by women. I am interested in the quilt as a body of intimate narratives.
Truck: Mobile; storable; enclosed. I am interested in the truck as a body of immigrants, in this case, both literally and metaphorically, for the 39 immigrants who died in the Southeast of England in November of 2019.
Even thought the truck is a symbol of mobility, it arrived while the people it carries did not. It is an object of fluidity and movement but also is a monument piece, a relic, of sort.
I use a generative quilt to represent this arbitrary object. It is both a body of immigrants and of their stories, each is different: The reasons for why they left, and the reasons for why they deserve a better life.
Rigorously analog; narrative; intimate; memories; born from found materials, often salvaged from garments of treasured origin; portable; laborious; and usually made by women. I am interested in the quilt as a body of intimate narratives.
Truck: Mobile; storable; enclosed. I am interested in the truck as a body of immigrants, in this case, both literally and metaphorically, for the 39 immigrants who died in the Southeast of England in November of 2019.
Even thought the truck is a symbol of mobility, it arrived while the people it carries did not. It is an object of fluidity and movement but also is a monument piece, a relic, of sort.
I use a generative quilt to represent this arbitrary object. It is both a body of immigrants and of their stories, each is different: The reasons for why they left, and the reasons for why they deserve a better life.