I designed Rite of Passage after my daughter, Ayisha, participated in a ceremony at the Artists Collective in Hartford. Rite of Passage is a ceremony called Yaboo focused on traditional African family values welcoming adolescents into adulthood. I was taken with the dancing; the dancers looked like snakes slowly moving to the music. I was compelled to design a brightly-colored, full-of-movement quilt. I appliquéd figures of snakes around the quilt.