[For a concise history of Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) visit: https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/l-h-o-o-q/ ]
[For a concise history of Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) visit: https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/l-h-o-o-q/ ]
[For a concise history of Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) visit: https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/l-h-o-o-q/ ]
As I put the red binding around the outside edges of this quilt to finish it, I watched news broadcasters count the results of the 2016 United States presidential election. I was living in Tennessee at the time, and had also recently seen for the first time a full eclipse of the sun. I felt a quiet, chilling strangeness during both events. Like the birds in the treetops during the eclipse, I did not have a full understanding of why I felt scared. But sensing a consuming darkness rolling in, as the map of the United States turned red, I decided to name this quilt Eclipse.
As I put the red binding around the outside edges of this quilt to finish it, I watched news broadcasters count the results of the 2016 United States presidential election. I was living in Tennessee at the time, and had also recently seen for the first time a full eclipse of the sun. I felt a quiet, chilling strangeness during both events. Like the birds in the treetops during the eclipse, I did not have a full understanding of why I felt scared. But sensing a consuming darkness rolling in, as the map of the United States turned red, I decided to name this quilt Eclipse.