Oct. 30, 2025, 1:56 a.m.
The Fold: The Magic of Migration
The Fold, a letter from artist Sarah Atlee
The Magic of MigrationHello friends! The Fold is moving to a new home. This should be a seamless transition for you; no boxes to tape up or carloads to take to the donation center. I won't even ask to borrow your truck. The next letter you get from me will still be called The Fold and come from sarah@sarahatlee.com. But it will be hosted by Buttondown. Shiny pebbles* I gathered for you:
Curator's statement for the National Quilt Museum's exhibition Whiles I Yet Live: Matriarchy and Generational Exchange in Gee’s Bend. The guest curator for this show is Starasea Nidiala Camara. Gee's Bend is a fascinating community in part because of its geographic isolation and key role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. "In dialogue with its cocooned locality and the continued movement for longevity, early quilts presented alongside contemporary variations from some of the Bend’s most emerging artists imagine a sustainable futurity stitched across generations, where needle and thread are passed down hand-to-hand." You can explore the National Quilt Museum's permanent collection on the Google Arts & Culture site.
Concrete Sculptures by Mario Loprete "I like to think that those who look at my sculptures created in 2020 will be able to perceive the anguish, the vulnerability, the fear that each of us has felt in front of a planetary problem that was Covid 19 … under a layer of cement there are my clothes with which I lived this nefarious period. Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii, capable of recounting man’s inability to face the tragedy of broken lives and destroyed economies." - Mario Loprete
Behind the Seams: The Costumes of Andor Season 2 I LOVED the costumes in Andor, so it was a pleasure to take a deeper look at their design and creation. I want a work apron like Bix's. “We looked at workwear from all around the world — Japanese and American — [we] fused all the best elements and used natural fibers that had a lovely rustic quality. For Bix, she has a two-part work apron she can put all her tools into.” *borrowing this metaphor from Sarah Shotts' newsletter From the Compost Heap I super appreciate you coming along for the ride! Until next time, please enjoy these photos of butterflies visiting my neighborhood on their way to their winter homes.
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