Quilt

A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of three layers of fiber: a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back, combined using the technique of quilting, the process of sewing the three layers together.

The pattern of stitching can be the key decorative element if a single piece of fabric is used for the top of a quilt (a "wholecloth quilt"), but in many cases the top is pieced from a patchwork of smaller fabric pieces; and the pattern and color of these pieces will be important to the design.

In the twenty-first century, quilts are frequently displayed as non-utilitarian works of art[1] but historically quilts were often used as bedcovers; and this use persists today.

(wikipedia)

I'm taking the idea of quilt and integrating into my project - I'm creating an artifact that will have all quilt's qualities and identifiers but I'll project them into my idea:

I'm integrating all testimonies I received from my qualities research on Israeli women experiencing hardship during relocation/migration.

Storytelling and interviews, allowing me to take a short glimpse into their world and feeling, share their stories, their experiences, how they cope, how they fear and how they live.

Side A - Happy memories

Side B - sad memories

Top -

Middle

back

What comes up:

Beach-sea-ocean-sunset

sport-run

Laundry-damp

orange-cake-blossom

home - cooking? baking? disposition?

mindfulness

mirror

embroidery - lyrics of lovesong

cord decoration - lyrics of I try

Methods:

Using all senses to create a multilayer multisensory experience that will display the xxx

Senses:

Sight -

My options:

images can be display on paper

Images to be printed on fabrics

Image can be stitched to the fabric

Images can be printed as photos and attached to fabric

Images can be drawn on the fabrics

Smell - scratch and sniff and other option on sniffing and remembering

text displayed next to the smell.

Sound -

my options:

Audio files that can be played when pressing a button

Audio files integrated woven inside the fabrics

Playlist of all songs together

Push button to activate the song that was selected by each woman

Push button to activate the recorded story as was told by each woman

Touch - the quilt can be touched and is interactive, I want to add some textures to it and I want to have some embroidering done into it - words, pictures

Insert dry leaves into a part of the quilt - to create the rasseling sound of dry leaves

MIRROR - to be glued or stitched into the fabric.

Taste - some of the smells can be available to taste

ASMR - add sounds or visuals that triggers ASMR: scratching felt or microphone, crinkling of cellophane wrap, magnet

**** Mix sight and sound - storytelling recorded by women, telling the stories behind their decision to use their ideas of the senses.

From Historical Figures and Paradoxical Patterns: The Quilting Metaphor in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace JENNIFER MURRAY

I intend to explore the present meaning effects produced by Atwood through her use of the patchwork quilt as a unifying metaphor in her rewriting of the history of Grace Marks.

The novel’s appeal to the contemporary reader lies to some extent in its preoccupation with the reflexive process of deconstructing narrative strategies.

This interrogative stance points to the paradox that structures historiographic metafiction: that the desire to return to the past, to its resources and knowledge, is confronted by the awareness that there is no “real” access to the past, no key to unlock it, no guarantee of its authenticity. In Alias Grace, this paradox finds its most extensive expression through the image of the quilt, a fragmentary yet unified object whose metaphoric possibilities Atwood interrogates to the extent that the patchwork quilt comes to represent the determining paradox of the novel: that of making present meaning from traces of the past