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"Abataka I" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
Mary Fisher has signed the poster which is 24 inches by 36 inches. It bears the image of her quilt, named for a generic African term meaning "family, tribe, or community". Deep brick red, orange, raspberry and light lemon yellow all unite to create the quilt depicted here. The quilt in this poster was created using intaglio prints and linocuts on cotton fabric block printed and quilted by Mary. Speaking about Abataka, Mary says "It defines us as sharing a single identity; therefore, we belong-you to me, and I to you. It's whispered as security to the newborn and sung softly as comfort to the dying. Abataka is an embrace, a welcome home, a gentle touch for those who are dying."
Price: $75.00
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"Abataka II" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
Mary's powerful quilt is available in poster form. This 24 inch by 36 inch poster is signed by the artist and is ready for framing.
Price: $75.00
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"Abataka" Book by Mary Fisher
Mary Fisher's AIDS activism has taken her around the globe. But it was Africa that "changed her," she said after visiting as part of an official delegation and then returning with her two, teenaged sons. From acres of orphans to mourning villages, Fisher breathed in the experience of AIDS in Africa. She experienced the power of ABATAKA -- a pan-African term meaning family, tribe, community, home, belonging – and channeled that power into compelling, courageous art.
Mary claimed the name ABATAKA for a book showcasing her African-inspired art works, with reflective essays on each piece. The works, she wrote, "were born in the heart of an American woman being embraced by African women. What bonded us was AIDS. Our lives had each, against our own wills, been redefined by a tiny virus we never wanted but now could not escape. These women gave me ABATAKA."
Her time in Africa left Fisher inspired and impatient. She poured her feelings into compelling, unflinching art works. And between her Africa visits, she delivered bold testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives:
"I have seen AIDS - I've seen it in Africa, in America, and in the mirror. I have looked into the eyes of a thousand orphans. I've held other mothers who want, like me, not to leave their children. I have smelled the smell of dying. And I have tasted the absolute despair of those who are defined, as I am defined, by the virus. Therefore, I have come to Washington today to ask those of you with power to make a difference..."
~ Mary Fisher
(April 5, 2000)
The agony of AIDS is the backdrop for Fisher's recent work, including pieces collected in this book. But above the grim images of wasting and death hangs the miracle of ABATAKA. Fisher's Africa-inspired quilts, sculptures and textiles give her soul a place to speak of courage, passion, integrity, hope and humor. In the end, Fisher's art stands as a compelling argument that, if we are willing, we can make a difference.
Price: $19.95
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"Amazing Grace" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
This poster depicts a beautiful quilt created by Mary Fisher in deep reds, African sunset golds and yellows, and bearing words from speeches delivered by Mary. This beautiful piece hangs in the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. The poster size is 24 inches by 36 inches and is signed by Mary. It is also featured in Mary's book Abataka. The quilt was created in 2003 but the words with it are as poignant as ever. "I've sat among people with AIDS in rural American hospices, overcrowded federal prisons and the brutal heat of Africa. In most of these settings I am the only one who can afford the drugs that lengthen the lives of people with AIDS. Everywhere I look are sunken-eyed, sallow-faced brothers and sisters dying for their poverty, suffering for our inability to provide equal access to life-extending drugs. In all these settings, I have never once been judged by those who are dying. I may judge myself with guilt I cannot swallow. But they reach out with tenderness and acceptance, despite their nearness to a grave that I can still avoid. How else could I memorialize such love but with a quilt? And what else could I call it but Amazing Grace?"
Price: $75.00
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"Are You Not My Family?" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
This signed poster is created from the Mary Fisher art quilt entitled "Are you Not My Family?" Outer dimensions are 24 inches by 36 inches. Poster is signed by Mary and shipped in a tube. Artist statement for this quilt: "There are not a lot of "either/or" issues in life, I've discovered. There are many "both/ands." Especially when we wander into fields of religion and theology the terrain becomes increasingly murky. Whatever someone's faith, this seems obvious: We cannot call God our Father and simultaneously deny that we are brothers and sisters." The words "You and I cannot call God our Father and deny that we are brothers and sisters" are visible on the poster.
Price: $75.00
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"Because of Love of the Children" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
Signed Mary Fisher poster created from the art quilt "Because of Love for the Children." Dimensions of this poster are 24 inches by 36 inches. This signed poster is created from the Mary Fisher art quilt "Because of Love for the Children". The photos were taken by Mary during one of her trips to Africa. Posters are shipped in a tube. The artist statement for this piece is: "I bridle when I hear people say, "It's so wonderful that AIDS has been cured." Trust me, it hasn't been. No one with AIDS, anywhere, is cured. 100% of the infected are dying. Available drugs slow the progression of the disease, in part by "re-routing" the illness - side effects of the drugs are enormous - and in part by slowing the replication of the virus. We've learned how to slow AIDS, not how to cure it. In African, Asian and Caribbean nations where the epidemic has hit hardest, life prolonging drugs are largely inaccessible for economic reasons. A few families pool funds to buy drugs for one person, and the person chosen to receive drugs is the one who's employed - everyone else will die of poverty-related illness anyway. Since women and mothers are rarely the employed person in their families, death rates for mothers are near 100%. And since children are even less likely to be revenue-generators, they are universally consigned to the grave. When you see the faces of African mothers and African children, know that AIDS has not been cured. Not in Africa. Not in America. Not at all."
Price: $75.00
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"Creative Soul"
This art quilt bears a figure created from hand made paper in deep purple, burgundy and hunter greens. It is mounted onto a quilt in lavender print with a dark border. Mary Fisher has created this one-of-a-kind quilt as part of the Soul Series. It is 54 inches high and 21 1/2 inches wide. Creative Soul shows the versatility of Mary Fisher, as she combines her love of textiles with her love of hand made paper. The quilt has a sleeve to make hanging easy. It features the artist statement, as well as Mary's signature on the back. The artist statement reads as follows: "Raised Jewish, I love Black preaching. The pitch and cadence of an African-American preacher, voice soaring and whispering, words finding rhythm, moves my soul. That's how I hear James Weldon Johnson's poem, The Creation, where a Black preacher remembers a "lonesome" God who says, " I'll make me a man." I know a place that is dark and lonesome, before there was light. When the Creator speaks into my darkness, even my dark and lonesome soul becomes creative. Even I can be God's echo."
Price: $2,000.00
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"Every Soul"
'Every Soul' bears a hand made paper figure in eggplant and brick red embellished onto a machine quilted background in deeper brick color. Each figure on the Soul Series quilt is drawn by Mary Fisher from her hand made paper and carefully attached to give the quilt a dimensional look. This quilt measure 55 1/2 inches by 23 inches and has a sleeve attached for hanging. It is signed by the artist. The Soul Series of quilts reflects a thoughtful period in the life of the artist, Mary Fisher. She has signed this quilt and also attached the powerful artist statement to the back of the quilt. The statement is: Remembering her, I realize that every soul tells its own story. She had promised me that, once on the medications, she'd never stop. But her husband said she was shameful: he left. His family took trhe children. She felt her neighbors' accusing eyes, judging her guilty for a virus she never understood. Now, preparing to bury her, I heard her soul's story of piercing hopelessness. And I remembered again that every soul speaks, rarely using words.
Price: $2,000.00
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"He's my Baby"
The lovely face of an African baby stares back at the viewer, surrounded by black and gray fabrics, accented with a red border. The photo-transfer face comes from Mary's private photography collection. Finished size is 39" wide by 46 3/4" high with a sleeve attached on the back for hanging. This quilt is part of the "Faces from my Heart' Collection. The beautiful face of this child is bordered with bead trim and embellished with machine quilting. The artist statement for this quilt is as follows: I wanted this child more than I can say. He was sweet and gentle, his breathing so labored and his eyes so languid. But I could not move through the bureaucracy fast enough to adopt him, or to save him. As papers were being signed, his labored breathing stopped. I moved from grace to grief. He is gone now, but he will never escape my memory. I hear him in the night and I reach for him. Then I remember.
Price: $3,500.00
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"He's My Baby" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
This poster bears the image of the powerful and moving quilt titled "He's my Baby," created by Mary Fisher. Ready to frame or hang on your wall as is, this 18 inch by 24 inch poster is almost as impressive as the actual quilt. This poster is signed by Mary Fisher. This quilt is part of the "Faces from my Heart" Collection. The beautiful face of this child is bordered with bead trim and embellished with machine quilting. The artist statement for this quilt is as follows:
I wanted this child more than I can say. He was sweet and gentle, his breathing so labored and his eyes so languid. But I could not move through the bureaucracy fast enough to adopt him, or to save him. As papers were being signed, his labored breathing stopped. I moved from grace to grief. He is gone now, but he will never escape my memory. I hear him in the night and I reach for him. Then I remember.
Price: $55.00
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"I Embrace You" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
This beautiful quilt is now available as a poster, signed by Mary Fisher. The 24 inch by 36 inch poster shows the quilt with quotations from speeches made by Mary Fisher. The colors are golden honey, reds, blue/greens and browns. Mary's quote associated with this quilt reads as follows: "Faith is the ability to live hopefully with the answers" is a sentence from one speech that built on a sentence from another: "Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to do the right thing when most we are afraid."
Price: $75.00
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"Letter to My Children" Signed Mary Fisher poster
This 24 inch by 36 poster shares the moving speech given by Mary Fisher in 1992, conveying her thoughts and terror on her HIV diagnosis to her young sons. The quilt is in shades of bronw, tan, green, and bears images of her children. Mary's speech "A Letter to my Children" has been published in anthologies and textbooks many times since 1992. A few interviewers have referred to that speech as one of the earliest steps toward "coming out" with AIDS. Mary feels, however, that it was really the whisper of a frightened mother with two little boys at home.
Price: $75.00
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"Meaning of Life" signed Mary Fisher poster
The striking image of this quilt is yours in this poster 24 inches by 36 inches and signed by Mary Fisher. The quilt in rich reds and greens was block printed by Mary, embellished with yarns and silk ribbons, and metallic threads. In speaking about this quilt, Mary's thoughts are: When I first received word of my diagnosis with AIDS, I could not help but wonder, Why me? What I've discovered, happily, in this most unhappy of all epidemics, is that there is meaning in life's unexpected surprises. I hate AIDS, and will hate it to the day I die. But I also know that, because of AIDS, I have discovered a purpose in life that would never have been mine without the virus.
Price: $75.00
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"Orphans Raising Orphans" Signed Mary Fisher Poster
Mary has signed this poster of quilt titled "Orphans Raising Orphans." The 24 inch by 36 inch poster is ready for framing. Created in the rich colors Mary loves, this quilt is brick reds, tans, dark chocolate brown and bears words from speeches delivered by Mary. Mary's thoughts on this quilt are as follows: I stood, holding the hands of my sons Max and Zachary, looking across a dusty field in Africa. Before us was a camp of orphans-AIDS orphans- some too young, or too sick, to raise their heads. At first I thought I could not bear to look a second time. But when I did, I noticed a most remarkable thing. Everywhere in the field were older orphans caring for littler ones. They would draw and carry water to their younger brothers and sisters, then sit, dipping fingers into the buckets and brushing them over the parched lips of the tiny ones, offering comfort drip-by-drip. They scrounged for food and gave half of far too little to others. They were small orphans spending their lives loving smaller orphans. Orphans raising orphans. In the middle of an unthinkable devastation was love, pure as a perfect lily drifting on a putrid pond.
Price: $75.00
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"Paper Thin Soul" SOLD
THIS QUILT HAS SOLD "Paper Thin Soul" presents a figure constructed of hand made paper pulp, pigmented and created by Mary Fisher and embellished on cotton fabric. Finished dimensions are 26 3/4 " wide by 68" high. Presented on a background of spring greens, the figure is purples, pinks and shades in between. The multicolored fringe is bordered with a lavender binding. There is a sleeve on the back for hanging. The artist statement with this quilt is as follows; For a quarter century I've made paper. I love plowing my hands into the batter, mixing and kneading. I love the smell of it, the sound of it, especially the feel of it. My soul comes through my hands and takes up residence in the drying pulp. Once, long ago, my soul made the paper buoyant and large. Not now. My soul has been stretched thin. Paper thin.
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