Judith Margolis
Comments (0) February – March, 2009
Painter
Memory quilt
In Jewish tradition they rip the garment of the bereaved at the funeral to mark the irreparable rending of grievous loss. After Judith’s husband’s death she couldn’t bear to dispose of her beloved husband’s shirts. She had an intense visceral desire to tear up the shirts and to sew them back together again as something new. Andher own clothes and things belonging to their children or from their home. Each fragment was charged with memory and meaning. With each stitch, it reassembled what had been torn apart.
The sewn pieces are a story Judith tells herself of how her life was once colorful and beautiful. And that it could be like that one day again.
