Young Girl w/ Bucket 24” x 12” Art Quilt 2024

Created as part of my SAQA KS/MO/OK Regional Exhibition in 2024, inspired by the living-language-land project (at living-language-land.org). That project, devised by a small group based out of the UK, involved people in other countries around the world. The result was a set of 26 words from endangered and minority languages, contributed by members of indigenous communities. Their goal was to reveal different ways of relating to land and nature, and enlarge the lexicon we can all draw from in reflecting on those relationships. The project was related to COP26 (a series of annual global climate negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)), with a hope of giving a global audience fresh inspiration for our environmental crisis.

We were asked to select a word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word, based on our own research, experiences and creative voice. Works could be a combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D.

This art quilt, Young Girl w/Bucket. Inspired by the word: Tamposati: Those born in the Rio Tambo. Word Origin: Asháninka, Junín Region, Peruvian Amazon. Word Contributor: Yessica Sánchez Comanti.

The word Tamposati, from the Asháninka language, translates to “those born in the Tambo River, guardians and caretakers of our nature.” These are people of the Peruvian Amazon. I believe this word was part of the living-language-land project because of a great desire to preserve their language and cultural richness. I visited Peru and the Amazon in 2009 on a guided tour. I found the local people we met during the trip to be very interested in educating us with their love of nature. It affected me and I wanted to honor that with this piece.

Materials: Cotton/Polyester fabric, polyester batting, cotton/polyester and monofilament thread, tulle, pigments of various kinds, and cording.

Techniques: Raw edge applique and Pigment Patchwork (my own set of techniques using fabric, pigments and stitching).

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Created as part of my SAQA KS/MO/OK Regional Exhibition in 2024, inspired by the living-language-land project (at living-language-land.org). That project, devised by a small group based out of the UK, involved people in other countries around the world. The result was a set of 26 words from endangered and minority languages, contributed by members of indigenous communities. Their goal was to reveal different ways of relating to land and nature, and enlarge the lexicon we can all draw from in reflecting on those relationships. The project was related to COP26 (a series of annual global climate negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)), with a hope of giving a global audience fresh inspiration for our environmental crisis.

We were asked to select a word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word, based on our own research, experiences and creative voice. Works could be a combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D.

This art quilt, Young Girl w/Bucket. Inspired by the word: Tamposati: Those born in the Rio Tambo. Word Origin: Asháninka, Junín Region, Peruvian Amazon. Word Contributor: Yessica Sánchez Comanti.

The word Tamposati, from the Asháninka language, translates to “those born in the Tambo River, guardians and caretakers of our nature.” These are people of the Peruvian Amazon. I believe this word was part of the living-language-land project because of a great desire to preserve their language and cultural richness. I visited Peru and the Amazon in 2009 on a guided tour. I found the local people we met during the trip to be very interested in educating us with their love of nature. It affected me and I wanted to honor that with this piece.

Materials: Cotton/Polyester fabric, polyester batting, cotton/polyester and monofilament thread, tulle, pigments of various kinds, and cording.

Techniques: Raw edge applique and Pigment Patchwork (my own set of techniques using fabric, pigments and stitching).

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Dimensions 24 × 12 in

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