Artwork Details
- Title
- A Matter of Trust
- Artist
- Date
- 1994
- Location
- Dimensions
- 72 x 72 x 1⁄8 in. (183.0 x 183.0 x .3 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- paper on fiberglass screen with cotton thread
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Abstract
- Object Number
- 1995.21
Artwork Description
Trust is the confirmation of courage, the gaze of wonder, the passion to surrender. . . . Still, I never jumped into a dark body of water or trusted a predator.
--Maria Emilia Faedo
Maria Emilia Faedo arranged ordinary envelopes in a traditional quilt pattern to create a statement about intimacy and trust. Friends, family members, and even acquaintances each sealed a deeply personal secret in an envelope and gave it to Faedo, who promised that the envelopes would never be opened, nor the piece sold. She then sewed the envelopes between sheets of fiberglass screening, preventing the secrets from being revealed without the total destruction of the work.
Faedo, who came to the United States unaccompanied as a fourteen-year-old after the Cuban Revolution, organizes multidisciplinary collaborations and community partnerships to promote diversity and inclusion in the arts. In her artwork, she transforms the stuff of ordinary life--paper envelopes, photographic negatives, steel wire, images from popular culture, and other unlikely media--to explore human relationships and cultural preconceptions.
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