Memorial Fibreart | Intermix Design

MEMORIAL FIBREART - New & reclaimed fabric intermixed together

THE STORY:
Memorial Quilts and Memorial Fibre Art are made to honor and celebrate the life of a loved one. Constructed from either clothing of the person’s life or textiles that reflect the character and essense of the person. Each piece of art is gently and lovingly pieced together and stitched according to the personal requirements. These artworks have been birthed out of very personal stories. My own story of loss through miscarriage and the loss of my most cherished loved ones. The story of a mother who lost her son in a tragic circumstance. She made a beautiful quilt out of his favourite colours and gently wrapped the quilt around his body. It was her way of giving part of herself to him. The story of a beautiful woman who courageously battled blood cancer. For months on end she lay in her hospital bed. One day she was gifted with a beautiful quilt that was gently layed over her. She was unable to speak, but her delight was shown through the expression of excitement and joy on her face; for she was an incredibly talented and creative woman of her time. The colours changed the mood in the room as she moved her fragile hands over the tactile quilt. The act of gifting the quilt to her had a profound effect on the nursing staff who cared for her and to her loved ones who visited. The stories of the Gees Bend women, a group of women and their ancestors who lived in the isolated African American hamlet of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. An extract taken from the book Creation Story “turning rags into art, depriviation into beauty, many quilters view their patchworks as a way to reclaim the most scorned elements in our world. And in this sense, each quilt is an act of redemption. Within the redemptive practice of salvaging old cloth, the women of Gee’s Bend discovered a radical way to defy scarcity and hardship, as well as to commemorate many lives whose stories would otherwise be forgotten within larger accountings of the past. In the making of their bedcovers, these quilters found a way to express their sense of beauty, history and memory, dreams and ambitions. From a pile of castoffs, they created a dazzling universe of colour, shape and pattern. Far from the priviledged realms of recognised art, they fashioned their own art world”.

THE STORY
Memorial Quilts and Memorial Fibre Art are made to honor and celebrate the life of a loved one. Constructed from either clothing of the person’s life or textiles that reflect the character and essense of the person. Each piece of art is gently and lovingly pieced together and stitched according to the personal requirements. These artworks have been birthed out of very personal stories. My own story of loss through miscarriage and the loss of my most cherished loved ones. The story of a mother who lost her son in a tragic circumstance. She made a beautiful quilt out of his favourite colours and gently wrapped the quilt around his body. It was her way of giving part of herself to him. The story of a beautiful woman who courageously battled blood cancer. For months on end she lay in her hospital bed. One day she was gifted with a beautiful quilt that was gently layed over her. She was unable to speak, but her delight was shown through the expression of excitement and joy on her face; for she was an incredibly talented and creative woman of her time. The colours changed the mood in the room as she moved her fragile hands over the tactile quilt. The act of gifting the quilt to her had a profound effect on the nursing staff who cared for her and to her loved ones who visited. The stories of the Gees Bend women, a group of women and their ancestors who lived in the isolated African American hamlet of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. An extract taken from the book Creation Story “turning rags into art, depriviation into beauty, many quilters view their patchworks as a way to reclaim the most scorned elements in our world. And in this sense, each quilt is an act of redemption. Within the redemptive practice of salvaging old cloth, the women of Gee’s Bend discovered a radical way to defy scarcity and hardship, as well as to commemorate many lives whose stories would otherwise be forgotten within larger accountings of the past. In the making of their bedcovers, these quilters found a way to express their sense of beauty, history and memory, dreams and ambitions. From a pile of castoffs, they created a dazzling universe of colour, shape and pattern. Far from the priviledged realms of recognised art, they fashioned their own art world”.