Roles

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"The young today reject goals. The[y] want roles - R-O-L-E-S. That is, total involvement. They do not want fragmented goals or jobs." (McLuhan 100).

Inspired by a dream in which she sewed a broken treaty onto a thrifted quilt, artist Gina Adams started to use text to educate people about the events of US history that American education would rather forget.

    With intention for social change, for discourse, for the start of discussion - roles are needed. 

Gina Adams wishes to fill a role with the patched voices of the past displayed on a quilt, threaded together with time and intention, with fair pay to the workers, to cause an emotional reaction, to feel the disorientation of those treaties broken all those times, through all those years.

It is moving, the repetition and meditation on the names of those who were forced to sign the Broken Treaties. Repetition. Meditation.

    We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.We cannot ignore the wrongs still left un-righted.


 

ROLES  

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    Tell me, What do I do?

    Tell Me- What do I do.

    Tell ME WHat do i Do

    tell me what should I?

    Do.                                                          -The Princess Bride


ROLES  

W  H  A  T    D  O    I   D O?

 like a quilt, patched together, each letter...


seek roles, not illusions.




Comments

  1. Ethan SwansonOctober 17, 2021 at 2:17 PM

    I think Adams' mention of fair pay to her employees and the fact that all the work is done by hand makes these quilts even more meaningful. Their message seems to be even more pure knowing the love and respect that went into making them.

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