This is the third in a series of quilts exploring my feelings about the racial tensions and trauma we’ve faced starting in 2020 as a reckoning for our history of racism in the United States.
The first one “Forward Movement” was arrows of African fabrics with white fabric and was made as a prayer for healing. The second was “Hope Deferred” and was centered on my thoughts and confusion as we neared the divisive 2020 election. I had previously spent hours sewing tiny squares of African wax fabrics into a large piece and was so discouraged by the news I was seeing that I cut the entire piece I had made up into small triangles and stitched them back together in a way that expressed chaos. This third quilt uses those same cut up pieces and explores the divisions between black and white while offering a space to contemplate where we each might fall on a spectrum of understanding.
They are all offered in hopes of healing, even as we must walk through grief and pain to get to a new hopeful place.