QUILTED WALLHANGINGS

Legacy of the Cloth offers a celebration of my sartorial practice.  It is a showcase of learning with one-of-a-kind quilted wallhangings using, for the most part, Ankara and other African textiles. Quilting, in particular allows me to intentionally embrace the legacy of those, including my own family,  who created wearable art and textile pieces with the least likely of materials, rejecting notions of lack, and instead embracing a spirit of sustainability and flare.  Many of my pieces are designed and made with remnants and notions from my personal collection.  Cloth lives our whole lives with us and is an important medium that offers warmth, style and modesty.  Cloth also maps diasporic histories, decorates our spaces, and is yet a soft and sometimes unexpected landing for subjects hiding in plain sight or consigned to abstraction but meant to provoke thought and conversation. Well made by hand in Durham, NC. These one-of-a-kind colorful pieces represent a variety of themes and techniques with intentions of sustainability and great care.