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Lost Lives

Quilt with an image of a building - below is a stack of bricks with names

Lost Lives (2016)

The San Francisco 1906 earthquake destroyed many buildings at the Agnews Insane Asylum trapping inmates inside the locked wards. Although 107 inmates died, historical accounts ignore these deaths.

87 x 44 inches (221 x 112 cm)
fabric, cotton batting, thread
Quilting: Sue Fox
Description: A large grainy newspaper photograph of the collapsed buildings at Agnews covers the top third of this large quilt (87 x 44”). Mottled grey fabric fills the next third. On it are quilted bricks falling down. The lower third of the quilt contains the names of 107 inmates who died in Agnews in the 1906 earthquake written on brick colored fabrics.