re·collections, 2020

noun

plaster, gold leaf, (indigo dyed cotton, madder dyed cotton, iron mordant, thread, cotton batting)

re·collections, recall, repress. re-press. Press into, leave traces. Feminine labor weaves time into cloth and binds cloth into quilt. The bodily object, family heirloom; leaves its mark in the construction of a secular spirituality. The quilt binds the family. A lingering connection to that which is absent. A moment in time frozen into infinite silence.

Photographed by Destini Ross