Installation
Intervisible: Redlining and Blind Stitching in the Fabric of Greater Boston
This installation explores racism. More specifically it looks at some of the ways that I have unknowingly participated in white supremacy. For more on this piece, please read the review of the show in Art Scope Magazine.
For more on my process, please visit these blog posts, “Racism is a White Problem”, “My Process is Like a Jigsaw Puzzle”, and “Intervisible - The Talk”.
This piece was conceived as something I could take to other cities and customize using the redline maps of those places. I had hoped to create community events in which people could come and stitch the map of their city back together. The pandemic interrupted these plans.
Video recording from the gallery.
Gallery Views
This show was hosted by Bromfield Gallery in Boston, from March 2, 2020 till August 2, 2020. The fabric maps that line the gallery walls are stitched and hand dyed cotton batting arranged in the shape of the redline map of Boston from the 1930’s. The lace cut paper obscures the view of the maps. The images cut from the paper represent the many ways I have been lured away from knowing about systemic racism, and into complicity.
“I was looking around my hometown of Needham and asking, “How did this place get so segregated?”
-Caroline Rufo,
Art Scope Magazine, July/August 2020
In urban planning, “Intervisibility” refers to points in the landscape that are mutually visible, like the Washington Monument and the Capitol. I think the word can also apply to people who can see and be seen by each other.
Performance Art
The Reading
My collaborative performance “The Reading” is an extension of my Tarot Project. Click the button to learn more about this project.
