nicole dimarco

Textile wrangler from Pittsburgh. My background is in experimental music and theatre performance. Currently beautifying the gardens of southwestern PA.

Our Envisioned Futures (2021)

Broken Cycle represents my need to acknowledge and release myself from toxic behaviors inherited from family & society. I made it thinking about prison abolition, harm reduction practices, familial cycles of abuse, and and the toxicity of whiteness. When I was making this square, I “had to” make and re-make it because there was an error in my seam allowances each time. I thought about making it a third time and remembered perfectionism doesn’t serve me, it only serves whiteness, and isn’t something I want to bring with me into the future. The square is made from 100% cotton gifted to me by an elder who can no longer quilt.