We have exhibited the work in two venues - one, the Arts Festival in the community, and at a conference called "The Art of Public Health". Each has been rewarding for us and multiple conversations have been generated. The work of the quilt - when viewed in public becomes a complex metaphor - for the structural inequities that women who are insecurely and unhoused experience, as well as the gorgeous community that has been created over cups of tea. The quilt becomes performative. And this is something I must consider.... It performs the wish for the domestic as well as its denial in the lives of women living in shelters. But I will close with a wish that we bear witness to the words from the women, as quoted above....
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