We begin our new year with an old friend. The camera. There is no film or darkroom — our realm is now digital. Gone for now, is that chemical cocktail of developer, stop-bath, fixer and hypo clear - because now there's Photoshop. Our task is to create a series of portraits that include photos where the face is shown, and others where it is not. For some of the photos, I bring my quilts to "life". For others I wrap a length of finger-knitted yarn around a small pose-able wire mannequin. Interestingly, invisible and bundled inside my quilts are my sons — it’s their male presence that gives those feminized objects their human form. The pose-able mannequin is a simple metal-wire armature presented on a sheet of white-gessoed paper. It becomes activated with the use of dramatic lighting, the addition of some knitted yarn, and shots from different points-of-view. Once again, thank you Will and Jack for help with these "shoots". I also introduce some text to "narrate" individual stories for these quilt figures. Those stories are borrowed from old historical reference books that describe the lives of quilt-makers. Trapped inside nostalgic blanket works, the descriptions of their feminine lives are read as suffocating. Their words speak to how social rules and codes are often assigned and accepted, and over time rejected.