Tag: Bisa Butler
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life, quilted: Bisa Butler’s Portraits at the Art Institute of Chicago
The women in my mother’s family tie off their quilts. I’m not entirely sure where it came from, though I will confess I’ve wondered if we’re tying off and tying elfknots into our own work (rather than our hair: mine is too straight to elfknot anyway) as a good-luck charm, or maybe a ward. (It’s […]
Essentially a Nerd 