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looks pretty gee's bend-y to me, guess that's the southern American influence.

Correction:Liz Jaff will be at The Market NYC/Young Designer's Showcase at 490 Hudson Street not at Mulbery Street.

There is definitely a Gee's Bend influence, but these lack the wonderful color sense and historic significance of the Alabama originals.

FYI, the quilt on the left side of the lead image is actually titled "Housetop Variation (Gee's Bend)".

EXTRA FYI: @Lori @akostalas
I had shamefully never heard of or seen work from Gee's Bend until you guys brought it up; thank you so much. Brilliant, amazing stuff.

The quilt on the upper right is mine and I sleep under it every night. I was fortunate to meet Ms. Jaff three years ago living in the same Barrow Street building as an dear painter friend. She's a remarkable and tenacious artist who now works with fabrics but whose focus in the past has been her sculpting with paper. I'm a Gee's Bend fanatic as is she - Liz accepted my commission to pastiche the work of the Lillie Mae Pettway. This is what art movements are about. I was raised on the West Side of Manhattan but my mother was from East Tennessee. Those women, I'll tell you right now see, hear and feel things we dont. Down there, at night, even the silence between the tree frog cadence is deafening. So how do you quilt that? How do you quilt the 2 train pulling into the Nevins street station? Thank you, Liz.