Materials: Hospital blanket, nylons, a bra strap, hospital restraints, keys, a paint brush, ear buds, handkerchiefs, beads, mixed fabrics, hand pieced, hand embroidered, machine quilted

Year Completed: 2016

Dimensions: 65” x 78"

Sewn for exhibition on the Changing Aging tour, this quilt explores the subject of aging within institutional and gentler networks of care. This is emphasised with handwork and machine quilting. It’s hard to know how to support the elderly, and to find the line where caretaking ends, and confinement begins. This restraint of aging begins early in life with control tops, and climaxes with tight quarters, physical restraints, and medications.

Exhibitions: Toured from 2016-2018 with Changing Aging and Kyrie Carpenter

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