Tamai Shealey

My work ‘Sheer Quilt’ was made as an exploration of the relativity of items that we distinguish as comfortable. Comfort is defined as a state of physical ease and freedom of pain and constraint. Quilts are items that are considered comfortable for the warmth they give in cold weather as well as the memories they can hold as they are typically items passed down from one person to another. Through my research, i’ve focused on the effects of the Lockdown in 2019 on individuals as well as psychological states of those who hoard. These two research points are related to how homes and the items inside a home can become restraining physically and mentally for those who occupy them.