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A Week in Hospice
Quilt, 80"x80"
Daire O'Boyle is a bodyworker, quilter, gardener, lover, and a full-spectrum doula based in Philadelphia, PA. The art they make and the work they do are rooted by their passions for Reproductive Justice, community nurturing, and future-building. As a self-taught sewist, they use repurposed, salvaged, and inherited fibers in both traditional and intuitive ways to honor their matrilineage. Their upbringing in Virginia can be seen represented in their work, as well as their reverence for the natural environment, the spiritual world, and the relationship between love and grief.
I make art that is inspired by the quilt makers in my maternal lineage, the experiences of those women, the grief over the loss of those women, and the ancestral rituals that ground us in our lives. The work is made through a combination of using traditional quilt block patterns and intuitive quilting, using fabric that is salvaged from second hand sources and from the estates of loved ones. I return to themes and motifs of matriarchy, nature, community care, the spiritual world, and emotional portals by bringing in visuals and color stories inspired by the religion I was raised in, because of how deeply and viscerally we hold those spaces in our bodies. These motifs are where I find safety and also deep vulnerability. I want my work to convey how important grief is to feel, honor, sit in, and move through by any means necessary. I honor my own grief practices through my work, and with those practices, I hold on to what has been lost.
A Week in Hospice
Quilt, 80"x80"
Daire O'Boyle is a bodyworker, quilter, gardener, lover, and a full-spectrum doula based in Philadelphia, PA. The art they make and the work they do are rooted by their passions for Reproductive Justice, community nurturing, and future-building. As a self-taught sewist, they use repurposed, salvaged, and inherited fibers in both traditional and intuitive ways to honor their matrilineage. Their upbringing in Virginia can be seen represented in their work, as well as their reverence for the natural environment, the spiritual world, and the relationship between love and grief.
I make art that is inspired by the quilt makers in my maternal lineage, the experiences of those women, the grief over the loss of those women, and the ancestral rituals that ground us in our lives. The work is made through a combination of using traditional quilt block patterns and intuitive quilting, using fabric that is salvaged from second hand sources and from the estates of loved ones. I return to themes and motifs of matriarchy, nature, community care, the spiritual world, and emotional portals by bringing in visuals and color stories inspired by the religion I was raised in, because of how deeply and viscerally we hold those spaces in our bodies. These motifs are where I find safety and also deep vulnerability. I want my work to convey how important grief is to feel, honor, sit in, and move through by any means necessary. I honor my own grief practices through my work, and with those practices, I hold on to what has been lost.
