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Julia Spewak

The Past, The Present, The Future, And The Warmth To Supplement Them (2022) This project is an exploration of the past, present, and future across three 18” x 24” quilts, using images and writings abstracted via various means of hand sewing and machine embroidery. The quilt has always been a sacred object to me, fossilizing memories, suspending them in time, comforting the user as time moves ever forward. Blue represents the “Past”, sweetened like a once-sour candy, its taste begging to be forgotten; pink represents the “Present”, every memory I choose to carry with me in my back pocket; yellow represents the “Future”, the speculative, the inconceivable. Special thanks to Amelia Magee for documentation of the project depicted in the imagery on the “Present” quilt.