mixed media
Prayer Quilt
gauze, transfers, text, sewing
5'(h) x 3.5'(w)
1999
A collection of prayers, healing herbs, and images of spiritual icons from many cultures repeated over and over on sewn medical pads. from a distance the text looks like blood but when one gets closer the words of the prayers (broken up but readable) come into focus. This combination of text and imagery is a meditation on the coexistence of pain and beauty in our lives.