“I am here to tell you that the photograph and quilt have a lot in common. Some of this material is straightforward, but other parts are twisting. If you aren’t twisting then maybe you should try a twist. Dame’s quilts follow some tradition in form and function. As a tool of communication, a traditional storytelling of the lives abstracted in Raman’s photographs. They are both using their hands to tell from history and present day. They’ve chosen from fragments of leftovers and visits with lovers. A smart device can snap one in a fragment of a second. Eventually the whole is stitched together. It takes hours. It takes days! It takes months. It can take years!

— Exhibition Statement by Suz Evans

BIOS:

amy dame combines art and craft to create pieces that express the experiences, beliefs and political convictions that guide their life as a fat queer femme genderqueer person with invisible disabilities.

Ahalya Raman was born in India, and currently lives in Western Massachusetts. She is interested in memory, in what remains, and looking back in order to look forward.