I saw these Foreclosure Quilts circling the web recently and found them to be an interesting—and harrowing—portrayal of the ongoing housing crisis. Kathryn Clark is a fiber artist and former urban planner, and she shows the actual locations of a city’s foreclosures (this quilt is actually called “Cleveland”) as holes in the quilt. Parks and other landscape areas are also shown with other fabric. It’s amazing how totally random information forms an interesting design on all of her quilts. The medium also carried the message—quilts have a historical and emotional connection to hard times, when every bit of fabric had to be saved, and all clothes mended. Head over here to read a bit more about her process and see the quilts of more cities.

 

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Rachael Novak draws for a living and eats a lot of candy.