Dayenu: My Upcoming Exhibition

With the greatest pleasure, I invite you to come to Brew House Arts for my one-woman exhibition: Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough. The exhibit will run from July 16th through September 5th, with the opening reception on Thursday, the 16th from 6:30-8:30.

Dayenu Flags installed in the loft

DAYENU: It Would Have Been Enough , is a completely new body of work encapsulating quilting as my vehicle for life-learning. I echo the organizational system generated in A Patchwork Life, using the 14 letters in its title as an acrostic guide to craft fourteen original fiber works. I assigned each letter a transcendent Kabbalistic concept that then employed a collection of materials, a quilt pattern, and the appropriate stitching techniques. 

Toward the end of the Passover Seder, we sing the song Dayenu / It Would Have Been Enough. Each verse of the song lists a separate miracle and concludes with Dayenu, affirming that the event deserves profound gratitude because it, on its own, would have been enough. For this exhibitioneach quilt is a worthy Dayenu.

Published by SilkQuilt

Pittsburgh-based fiber artist, Louise Silk, creates art that combines aesthetics and functionality with meaning and memories. From the influence of a 1972 MS Magazine article to the current SILKDENIM label, her quilt experiences culminate in a display of her particular capacity to use her patchwork skills to piece together just about anything into an aesthetic meaningful whole.

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