Fundamentalist Quilt

'Fundamentalist Quilt' is social-political commentary on religion. Quilts, religion, and traditional patterns are sources of comfort. Paradoxically this star quilt pattern is a whitewashed rigid steel form.

All the shapes in this piece form churches, roofs with steeples, and gothic arched doors at intersecting angles. The forms coalesce into a star quilt pattern of Christian crosses that  simultaneously resemble print registration marks used to assure structured alignment or gunsight crosshairs.

The crosshair imagery carries connotations of marking a social target or being in someone's sights. This symbolism implies a sociopolitical critique of organized religion, suggesting that these institutions might be used for manipulation or even be a source of conflict or violence.

The use of white for the sculpture invokes concepts of purity, spirituality, and peace and simultaneously blankness, coldness and emptiness. The fact that the work is suspended, casting shadows onto the plain white wall alludes to a belief system of black, white associated with dogma or strict adherence to a set of beliefs.