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Daylight Savings, about 4’ x 3’ x 7”, 2010

The quilted squares unravel a little more from row to row, pane to pane. They ultimately reveal a photograph of my great-great-grandparents. Through sentimental, though finite, materials, I wished to suggest the everlasting properties of home and its comforts.

Curled, for the warmth it
always promised to yield, in the quilt
You made the summer,
or maybe the winter,
after he went cold the last time, the fall before.
I wonder how—with the arthritis in your fingers—
You took up the task at once, a fell swoop
after much preparation for the pain the delicate
but exhaustive work was sure to beget.
It took you countless times to pierce the needle through the gentle, careworn fabric
You tried to avoid so long
for the weight of all the memories dragging down the innate density
of all his t-shirts and housecoats to be
knit together as one
new thing out of copious old.
Silently you mended what needed mending
And you cried, It is finished! when the new thing
had just begun.
I wrap the great blanket you made
around myself now to keep me—
when the cold is coming
to keep me—
from freezing
at last.

Branches, twine, fabric, photographs, raku-fired clay.

Working on my Crazy Quilt Christmas stockings tonight since I had a night to myself. I found a cool Transformer t-shirt and wanted to see how it would look as a Christmas stocking. This one will be going in my Etsy shop as soon as I get it set up.