10A: SUMMARY
The Big Salad (PC: Madison D)
But honestly, I don’t want to talk about it much more, so I made a video expressing some of the trauma that this quilt helped me to see and release. All music, except the final song from a friend’s band (Philomena- by Shrugs), was made by me during my teens an early twenties while in active drug addiction.
Trigger warning: distressing audio and uncomfortable movement
Catharsis, letter from grandmother, fabric from aunt:
My Matriarchy (PC: Grace McLarty)
10B: RADICAL
FWJD Website (PC: Grace McLarty)
This website is an ongoing process that I hope to continue through the years. Please check it out here:
José Gómez Farmworker Justice Day
The connections I made with CCBLA will carry me forward as I explore the housing crisis in Olympia.
I was also very excited to get a taste of what in person learning is like, as well as some tasty oysters.
Oyster Tasting (PC: Grace McLarty)
I took a ton of pictures and everyone should be able to view them using the link below:
Oyster Tasting Pictures (OneDrive)
10C: HOME
Visions (PC: Grace McLarty)
Gearing up for future projects about reimagining housing. Every human deserves a hearth.
Amelia’s beautiful paragraph that connects to what I want to explore in regards to domesticity and ancestral healing:
By manipulating women’s relationships with food, twisting it so that it is something to run from, not to, patriarchal forces are actively weakening female communities and connections. By healing this wound and returning to the natural power women hold as universal creators, in the kitchen and everywhere else, you are reclaiming what the patriarchy has sought to steal away from you. This is much easier said than done, of course, and I am just in the beginning stages of doing this. However, looking into my own cultural background with food, as well as the experiences of other women, has been an incredibly impactful first step. By deepening ones own connections with food and cooking, you are creating a tie that will be increasingly hard for diet culture to sever. Food is bounty, fertility, love, joy, food is the most sacred aspect of the human experience. Eating and enjoying food is an ancient act of self love, one that connects you to the people and communities you come from, while actively pushing you towards those in the future. Delighting in the hedonistic pleasures of food, following your nose and tongue through a meal, eating with your hands, belly laughing between bites, all are revolutionary acts against the patriarchy. That is the biggest lesson I have taken away from this year as a whole. Our ancestors have suffered too much starvation and pain for us to be concerned with how much weight we have gained in a time of global crisis, or how pleasing our bodies look for men who will never be satisfied. Eat and be merry, if not for yourself, for your great great great grandmother who wishes she could.
Amelia Pressman “A Reflection”, 2021
10D: MAKING
Taking a break from quilts, making other things for now.
More Shibori (PC: Grace McLarty)
Took some photos for a friend the other day, it was nice to branch out to my other hobbies and take a step away from the trauma of the quilt.
Remembering Photography (PC: Grace McLarty)
