Seeing Red | Social Commentary

Seeing Red Resized
2018
62″ high x 29.5″ wide
Photography by Douglas Sandberg

This quilt captures two realities of the border-turned-battleground between the US and Mexico. The angry Do Not Enter sign represents hostility toward border crossers, while the tiny red crucifix that someone left behind suggests the human—or rather—inhumane, consequences that await many migrants.

EXHIBITIONS

Form and Function, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose CA, Oct. 20, 2019–Jan. 12, 2020
United We Quilt (online), October 2019–Ongoing