Quilting Patterns of Identity II

2019—2022

Quilt Patterns — Laser-cut paper, inks, gold-leaf; 16’ x 10’ x 2.5’

Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar

Qatar America Institute of Culture, Washington D.C. (video)

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
Oklahoma City

Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Tulsa, OK

Quilting Patterns fuses floral and geometric patterns from quilt designs from Pakistan with quilt designs from the Gilcrease collection. Hanging like banners, they offer tribute to women craft artists across the globe whose identities and memories are preserved in the quilts they create, and by the families who are kept warm by them.

The title foregrounds multi-layered identities that immigrant women assume within and between cultures. As an immigrant, for me, community and belonging are not static, but a process of continually engaging. In visualizing this process, the patterns I use from human and natural creation expose cosmic interconnectedness between and across cultures.

Installation view of Quilting Patterns of Identity II at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Photo by Julianne Clark.

Installation views of ArtNow 2021 exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. Photos by Helen Opper.

Installation view of ArtNow 2021 exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center. Photos: (left) by Charla Hughes Berenson & (right) by Helen Opper.