Working with traditional practices of foraging, steeping, stitching, and quilting. Existing in the ancestry of my great grandmother and quilter, Lilly Mae Callan.
Motivated by storytelling and history of communal quiltmaking, I resonate with processes that alter ordinary forms in distinctive ways rely on the human hand and our earthly connection. Creating color from plants is a slow, intentional practice of resistance towards modern, homogeneous commercialization. Quilting is a slow, intimate practice. Becoming, as an individual, is a slow, continual, complex practice. I play with the idea of queering traditional practices, leading to experimentation, freedom, and nonreplicable forms. In the fall of 2019, I was highlighted in the CCAD Stories series. Here, the work I am discussing is my Queer History Today project.