Saya Woolfalk (CRF 2018) has a digital projection installation, entitled “Floating World of the Cloud Quilt,” on view at BAM through June 11th, 2022.
“This work quilts together 15 years of archival material from Woolfalk’s Empathic Universe, an array of visionary spaces where a fictional race of women can alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants… By connecting analog drawings, paintings, and photographs with digital elements in this universe, Woolfalk creates an embodied, unified space. This installation is a liminal collage of a digital sky incorporating images of medicinal plants, along with those from astrology, mandalas, and variations on sacred vessels and artifacts from around the world—Woolfalk shares these insights:
With this work, I want to immerse everyone in the archive of the Empathic Universe in the form of what I call “The Cloud Quilt.” Quilts often take the well-worn pieces of our everyday lives and combine them to create something new. When the elements are combined, the quilt retains all of the traces of history while becoming an object used in service to something else. A quilt is an object of comfort, warmth, and protection, and it is also a space for dreaming. With this work, I took a number of historical elements from the Empathic Universe, and quilted them together so the audience can experience what it feels like to be immersed in that world.“
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