Cotton, photo transfers, hand embroidered and appliqued, machine pieced and quilted.
This quilt represents my emotions about the hurricane that hit my community last year and about the recovery process that still goes on. As a Miami native, I had experienced several hurricanes in past years and although we were inconvenienced I never felt so unprotected, so unsafe, so vulnerable.
The line "a fellow of infinite jest"
comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet when Hamlet has come across
Yorick's skull and makes the reference to him, "Alas! poor
Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest..."
This wall hanging is a visual account of the jest: being tricked
by the ferocity of the storm, by the time lag since the last one,
by our own memories. The allusion to Yorick is an obvious expression
of mortal danger and, of course, people died.
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