#34000pillows

[thechinaoutpost]

00210 Sat 25Mar17 Clock Out 1830p . Thank you #díazlewis !!! Honoured to contribute and be a part of #34000pillows workshop - a number which corresponds to the pillows immigration and customs enforcement is required to maintain on a daily basis according to the detention bed quota. >>> pillow cases evoke a childhood memory ... our family shared the same bedroom at my uncle's house ... it was late at night... in fact, every night most of our early months as new immigrants to the US ... my mother had thought we (my sisters and I) were asleep ... and began to cry tears of longing onto her pillow case ... I pretended to be asleep ... >>> #thechinaoutpost back in Chinatown (at Human Resources Los Angeles)

[thechinaoutpost]

00209 Sat 25Mar17 . 1700p #thechinaoutpost in Chinatown #makingplans #díazlewis #34000pillows workshop ... (at Human Resources Los Angeles)

[thechinaoutpost]

00208 Sat 25Mar17 Clock In 1600 #34000pillows #díazlewis #makingplans #thechinaoutpost in Chinatown >>> workshop under way ... (at Human Resources Los Angeles)

[thechinaoutpost]

00207 Sat 25Mar17 . 1317p >>> #thechinaoutpost with sewing machine at hand ... heading to @humanresourcesla to join Diaz-Lewis 34000 pillows workshop ... a number which corresponds to the pillows immigration and customs enforcement is required to maintain on a daily basis according to the detention bed quota. >>> workshop starts 4pm >>> #thechinaoutpost back in Chinatown >>> #makingplans #díazlewis #34000pillows (at Human Resources)

[materialsprojects]

Day 8 Participation.  Decided to go knit in the Cultural Center.  Saw a pile of pillows in the Garland Gallery and went in to find out it was Alejandro Diaz and Cara Lewis with their residency 34,000 pillows!  Clearly this was the place to knit. Then Matthew Robinson showed up to help stuff pillows, hadn’t seen him for a year probably.  More folks came in, some to check out the work, some to help design or sew up a pillow.  Beautiful serendipity.  

Knitting in public makes me hang out in new places.

[carameganlewis1978]

And the back... #pillowoftheday #34000pillows (at Chicago Cultural Center)

[carameganlewis1978]

A broken heart for a family separated by deportation. This pillow contribution for #34000pillows was made by a mother and daughter whose partner/father was deported to Wales after he spent 3 months in an ICE detention center in Wisconsin #humbling #pillowoftheday (at Chicago Cultural Center)

[carameganlewis1978]

Last pillow we made before closing up the shipment for San Francisco. #BeNoble #Iwilltry #34000pillows #DiazLewis #ForSiteHLS (at Chicago Cultural Center)