The Joss Quilt Series
"The Joss Quilt Series function as mourning cloths. In Chinese culture, joss papers and joss sticks are "burned" in memory of ancestors and help to provide financial security in the afterlife. These quilts memorialize my ancestors and I would hope, will provide an abundance of good things in the next life!" Carol Westfall
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In Absentia, a statement written by juror, Janet Koplos, to accompany an exhibition at the Textile Arts Centre in Chicago, Illinois, contains the following quote:
"Carol Westfall’s ‘Joss Quilt III" is made of modular units and is organized symmetrically. Thus, like the other works I’ve just been describing, it plays with questions of order. Yet, perhaps because of the materials, it has a more fragile, less settled character. If it is the produce of chance operations, it may cease to be as easily as it came to be. The "quilt" looks, at any rate, as if it does not want to impose itself too much upon this world, and as if its order is a provisional thing, subject to change."
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