Porn Quilts
I began making these quilts using images from gay pornography. At first, I was interested in the tension between explicit sex and quilting, a medium so closely associated with warmth, comfort, and generations of women's creative labor. There was something both funny and defiant about taking an image meant to be consumed in an instant and spending weeks turning it into an object meant to last.
Over time, something else began to emerge. Pornography repackages the actions of love—desire, fantasy, sex, and intimacy—without the love itself. By pixelating these images and slowly rebuilding them in fabric, I began to sand down some of their harder edges. The images became quieter, softer, and unexpectedly tender.
I hadn't set out to make quilts about longing. But the longer I worked with these images, the more I recognized something underneath the sexual spectacle: a desire to touch and be touched, to love and be loved. What began as an exploration of gay sexuality became, in many ways, an exploration of our desire for love.
Each quilt is made from custom designed and printed textiles.
All quilts 100% cotton with cotton batting and sewn by the artist.
