Strings Attached and Wired to Snap (detail)

 

Road rage, domestic violence, mass shooting—what makes a person snap?  “It’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse…” Charles Bukowski wrote in his brutal ballad The Shoelace, “not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps.”  Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Shoelace” is hand-embroidered on seventy-seven feet of ribbon and stitched to each quilt. The poetic wrapping evokes familiar feelings of comfort, tension, mystery, and healing.

On exhibit: Artist as Quiltmaker.  FAVA’s 18^th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Quilts May 13-July 28, 2018. (http://www.favagallery.org/aqm-artist-as-quiltmaker.html).