Moved by Quilts

Last Friday, I took a tour of the Gee's Bend quilt exhibit at PMA. Most geometric and abstract art doesn't do much for me besides look cool, but many of the quilts on display were truly moving. Many were musical, some were witty. Being in the same room with the quilts, I could imagine the original life of the early ones, the ones that were made simply to keep families warm. And there was something joyful about the later ones made simply because the quilter wanted to make them.