
Sag, Harbor Honeystuckle
2013
"Sag, Harbor Honeysuckle" by Sanford Biggers layers rich visual history through a re-purposed quilt transformed with fabric collage, treated acrylic, metallic acrylic, and glitter. Biggers activates the quilt's embedded cultural memory — evoking the African American tradition of quilting as coded language and communal storytelling — while introducing bold, contemporary mark-making that bridges past and present. The shimmering metallic and glitter elements add a luminous tension, honoring the quilt's origins while asserting its new life as a site of artistic and historical reckoning.
- Medium
- fabric collage, treated acrylic, metallic acrylic and glitter on re-purposed quilt
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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April 11, 2019
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