The Healing Quilt

The work consists of four separate photographic objects. The main piece is a “quilt’’ which is made of 99 photographs sewn together by hand with the silver thread and finishing with the photographic lining sewn to it using the red thread.I have used the photographs I have taken during the first lockdown, in march 2020. I turned to the photographic medium to document these new, weird and slightly scary times. As part of my documentary project I have photographed the fruit bowl for 100 days of the spring lockdown and those were the photographs I decided to make the quilt out of.I have then offered the “healing quilt” to friends and family. By this act I was hoping to share my conceptual shelter with the outside world. I documented those gestures, turning yet again to the medium of photography and craft of stitching. Ironically, I have been finishing this work while suffering from covid myself. Once more I benefited from a slow meditative process of working with thread.