6'9" x 7'5" in.
Mary V. Black Art Endowment Fund
Nancy Crow; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1996
Artist’s Statement
Chinese Souls quilts are my memorial to more than 60 teenage boys who were bound and loaded on two trucks to be driven to their execution for petty crimes. I witnessed this horrible incident when I was an exchange artist in China in September 1990. The boys were all wrapped with heavy ropes. In these quilts, the circles represent their souls and the bull’s-eye embroidery and the hand-quilting represents the ropes tied around their souls. The colors of the circles represent the individuals. I have always felt there is an eerie energy that radiates out fro the surface of each of these quilts.
-Nancy Crow
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works
Chicago Cultural Center
November 4, 2006 - January 7, 2007
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