Tears for Sandy Hook

There were no words for my grief and fury over the slaughter of innocent children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Other than follow the news, all I could do was work out my feelings in cloth, stitch and paint. The result is a quilt of contrasts: glowing silk that is evenly machine stitched -- juxtaposed with roughly woven dyed cotton and black felt accentuated with chaotic hand embroidery and wild machine quilting. A teardrop bead, and "halo" of sorts, remembers each lost child; other beads and bits of cloth recall the teachers and the troubled shooter. I never tire of this quilt, the prayer it expresses, and the protest it registers against violence.