Unable to gather in traditional ways in the first year of the pandemic, Tina V. taped over 1,200 ziploc bags together to create weather-proof transparent “quilts” so the community could share writing, drawings, and images.
When the afternoon light hit the color cellophane in the quilts, the sidewalk became a stained glass patchwork.
“I am thankful for my elders, my mom is working hard, my lover is being brave.”
“My teacher is working very hard. He’s always frustrated because he has to take care of his little kids while he’s teaching us and his wife is not home, she’s working. I can tell it’s hard.”
The installation populated 13 panels of chain link fence adjacent to public school playing fields, a neighborhood center, and health clinic.
This interactive project was in place between November 2020 and January 2021 under the auspices of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.