This quilt is is apart of a series called Masked Masculinity that investigates the different masks men wear.  

Growing up in rural Washington State in the United States, there was very little room to show emotions or feelings, as a boy. You were called ‘weak’ or ‘sissy’ if you expressed your true emotions. The stoic (lower case) mindset is defined in modern times as the capacity to tolerate suffering without expressing sympathy or whining. 

With this piece, I explore the idea of blending different repressed emotions and then pulling them apart. Viewing the quilt using colored lenses, you can separate and individually explore feelings that we bottled up inside. Viewing the quilt without the color lenses, you feel the chaos that overlapping, unexpressed emotions, produce.

you can find a colored lens app in the main menu to view the different emotions.