Gone but never forgotten in a quilt
Ode to George Floyd, a quilt by Peggie Hartwell. Members of the national Women of Color Quilters Network draw on personal experiences of injustice, turning their needlework into symbols of liberation, resistance and empowerment. Peggie Hartwell via The New York Times.
by Patricia Leigh Brown
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Peggie Hartwell, a fourth-generation quilter from South Carolina, has found it hard to return to her needlework since she completed Ode to George Floyd, in which she renders Floyds face in subtle brown batiks, and an image of his mother barely visible behind a grove of trees. I had to talk to him, get to know him, the 81-year-old quilter said of the process. I pick up a piece of fabric and see his face.