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“I went to Gee’s Bend with a deep curiosity about the lives and inspirations of these extraordinary artists, whose works hang in museums around the country… Above all else, [they] emphasized an overarching theme of love — familial love, love of God, and self-love. It is the last thing that Essie [Pettway] told me when we spoke recently: ‘People are not really expressing enough love anymore. It’s at the center of what we do.’” —Maris Curran
As we head towards the Thanksgiving holidays, we here at Daily Plinth are grateful for the master quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and to Maris Curran and the New York Times Op-Docs series for bringing us this lovely documentary, While I Yet Live, about the quilters, their lives, and what drives them to create. [Spoiler alert: There’s a lot of love.]
