Coyote Comforts

Coyote Comforts: A Performative Sew-In

Maggie Winston and Lois Klassen at the exhibit The Living Blanket/La Couverture Vivante (CentreA, Vancouver)

On Friday, Maggie and I invoked the energy and creativity of the Coyote and set out to transform an enormous stack of altered fabric coyote prints into functional blankets. The squares originated at an art intervention at the Earth Festival (during the World Urban Forum, 2006). The block print by Pat Beaton was altered by festival participants with their reflections on environmental issues. The prints as 'prayer flags' were then distributed throughout the outdoor festival site. After it was all over, Maggie took the stack of over 1000 squares into storage. Almost 3 years later, the wandering coyotes are now ready to transform again, this time into comforters. So it has become a Comforter Art-Action. When completed these quilts will be distributed to local shelters.

Coyote Comforts will continue at the same place on Friday, Nov 7 (11 - 2 or so) and -elsewhere?- until all of the squares are transformed...

Comments

[Carl]

I see the work that you are doing and I marvel at your perseverence. In the face of overwhelming freemarket capitalism and individual utilitarianism, your work draws us back to a sense of the other. Yet you do it with a touch that is both light and penetrating, inviting us to deeper contemplation of our sense of self, connected to "other."
Thanks for your challenge to us all.
Carl

[Joan]

Please post pictures the finished coyote quilts! Close up, and from a distance....! Lovely.