Borne by the River
Sanford Biggers American
Not on view
Composed of antique and kimono fabric with gold leaf, Borne by the River is a compelling example of Sanford Biggers’s work in the medium of quilt-making, one with which he began working in 2009 to explore social, political, and economic issues and the larger historical circumstances that bore them. "[Quilts are] portals, in a sense," he once observed. "I consider them between painting, drawing and sculpture, and a repository of memory—the memory of the body." Much of his work in quilt-making engages the (disputed) theory that people along the Underground Railroad shared crucial information in codes embedded in quilts hanging at safe houses and other way points.
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