Defining the Quilt
The Dizengoff Quilt was specifically designed with two major goals in mind:
To celebrate and honor the lives of the victims
To encapsulate the events of that tragic day
Marlyn decided to depart from standard quilt design and to develop a unique and deeply symbolic piece of tactile art.
Thirteen individual quilts were made. The volunteer quilters involved interviewed family members to gather personal information about each victim, their life, loves, hobbies, interests and ambitions (see Victims and Quilts).
Each quilt is approximately 40cm x 40 cm. They are linked to one another to depict the fact that although each person was an individual in his or her own right they were nonetheless bound together forever by this tragedy. As many of the victims died together with friends or family members, individual quilts have been hung in groupings to depict these relationships. The gaps between each quilt represent the spaces left in the lives of families and friends.
The Purim mask with its tears of blood is used to as a graphic statement about the timing of the attack.
The quilt is suspended on four sides in a free-standing light-weight aluminum frame to enable it to be easily seen both front and back as many of the individual quilts carry a narrative on the reverse side as well.
Two storyboards, one in English and the other in Hebrew, describing the story behind the design of each quilt, hang on either side of the frame. |
