During
the last week of July, I was scheduled to teach a class on using words in quilts
at Halliburton School of Art and Design. I was also contracted to give the
Wednesday evening lecture that same week. But the College cancelled the summer
program.
That,
combined with being in social isolation, and many days of cloud, sent me into a
major negative spin for a while.
I’ve
snapped out of it and decided that there is still life during quarantine, as
long as I keep a positive focus.
The
theme for my word quilt project for the class, was ‘Reclaiming Pride’. The idea
was to celebrate and own the many names that I’ve been called growing up gay; to
take words that were thrown at me as slurs and put downs, and present them as
something beautiful.
The
most hurtful of the words, I am choosing to present in Braille or Morse Code.
My focus is on creating beauty from the hate.
Here’s
the first one …
‘RECLAIMING
PRIDE: A Bed Spread’
I
left out the spaces between dots and dashes in the letters.
Quilted by Deanna Gaudaur, quintestudios.com
Photographs by Mike Gaudaur, quintestudios.com
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