| Midnight Sky
Adesola Kilani Falade
Osobogo, Nigeria
1997
99 3/4" x 79 1/2"
Cotton
MSU Museum Accession 2000:66.3
Photo by Mary Whalen, all rights reserved by MSU
Museum
| Artist's statement: |
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Looking at the sky in December 1997, I notice
how beautiful the sky was and I took my pencil and think about
making a quilt like it. |
| The cloth was made using Adire
cloth, a method that is used by the Yoruba people that incorporates
ancient Indigo dyes with modern stitching techniques. |
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