Fractured Self

This piece was a response to the frustration that emerges when two people you love are fighting and you're caught in the middle.

The woman's body is fracturing, her body is constructed using a crazy quilt blocking technique, but also varying layers of batting create a multi dimensional appearance with some pieces jutting out farther than others.

Her fracturing and frustration are due to being confined by a border she didn't consent to being built around her; a log cabin quilting frame confines her to a solitary cell.

In response to being caged in and cracking under the pressure, she raises a baton to try to break the walls to free herself.

Materials: cotton fabric pieced front, wool batting, worn velvet fabric backing, 33"x44" Constructed by hand and machine, digitally altered

JPEG 2000x2000 px, Rochester, New York, 2022 Created by Alanna Wilcox @spinnybuns on Instagram & Twitter alannawilcox.com