The artists featured in Pieced Together We are Whole— Megan Koeppel, Susan J. Lapham, Russ Little, Dominie Nash, John Paradiso, and Imani W. Russell—all work non-traditionally within the quilting medium. Using a variety of approaches, the ideas explored were personal, political, and universal. Built into the making process, which entails the joining together of many parts to create a whole, was also the expression of ideas about communion, cohesion, gathering, blending, and building.
In Playing with Shadows, Liz Lescault’s biomorphic sculptures were constructed primarily with extruded filaments, some sculptures incorporating found objects. The fine filaments create shadows that become part of the piece, sometimes indistinguishable from it. Remnants and relics such as shadows, fossils and residues are a part of an object’s story and can be used in discovery. Scientists use remnants to uncover the nature of objects that may no longer exist in their original form. Remnants can also explain more about the existing nature of an object, as is the case in Playing with Shadows.
