SWITCHBACKS // Artist Spotlight on Carole Loeffler

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by Granny Graffiti

Excerpt //

I scour the shelves, bins, and racks at thrift stores for vintage photos, suitcases, quilts, greeting cards, pillowcases, clothing, and ephemera from everyday life. Of particular excitement and interest to me is discovering evidence from the previous owner…handwriting on the back of a photograph or greeting card, stitches in a quilt or on a handmade garment. I feel a strong connection to an anonymous person from an unknown time and place. The power of mark-making and stitches bind us together in our humanity, suggesting imagined narratives and a renewed purpose.

Carole Loeffler’s work was most recently on display in Philadelphia in the InLiquid exhibition Remembering the Suffragists, 100 years of Women Voting in the United States.

For full text and images, consider reading RQ in print, on a Sunday afternoon, sun streaming through your window, coffee in hand, and nary a phone alert within sight or in earshot… just fine words, fine design, and the opportunity to make a stitch in time. // Subscribe or buy a single issue today. // Print is dead. Long live print. //

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