UnCivil War

UnCivil War: No. 1 - spectrum

Machine pieced, machine and hand quilted.

Cotton fabric, cotton-poly batting.

64 x 74”

2021

“No common ground to start from

And we're falling apart”

-Deep Blue Something - ’Breakfast at Tiffany’s’

This is an exploration of political spectrum, of shifting beliefs and truths, to try and understand how rhetoric turned to hate, and how policy differences turned into sedition.

UnCivil War: No. 2 - no gays allowed

Machine pieced, machine and hand quilted.

Cotton fabric, cotton-poly batting.

62 x 68”

2021

“Kill all the f*gs that don’t agree”

- Green Day - ‘Holiday’

This second quilt is an exploration of how faith has been perverted into something that doesn’t resemble what is actually written in Scripture. Hatred has become dogma and love of country has somehow excluded love of fellow countrymen. How there has been a failure to acknowledge the humanity of neighbors, and my own experiences with homophobia and exclusion from the communities that raised me.

UnCivil War: No. 3 - echo chamber

Machine pieced, machine and hand quilted.

Cotton fabric, cotton-poly batting.

58 x 68”

2021

“People talking without speaking, 

people hearing without listening”

- Simon & Garfunkel - ‘Sound of Silence’

This quilt is an exploration of how divides seem to deepen when we isolate ourselves in echo chambers, only surrounded by voices we agree with. How for some, intolerance builds and facts become negotiable and unfixed to reality. How truth becomes mutable. How do we get back to civil discourse when starting points between groups are separated not only by political ideas but by a fundamentally different understanding of basic truth and provable facts?