HUMAN.

This piece is a suspended, double-sided quilt that explores the experience of living between cultures, languages, and identities. As a queer person adopted from Russia and raised in the United States, I often feel caught in a space of partial belonging, where identity is shaped through contradiction, translation, and displacement. One side of the quilt presents the word "human" in English surrounded by its Russian translation, while the reverse mirrors this structure in Russian, creating a physical and symbolic tension between the two languages. Through geometric text, layered fabric, and an intentionally imperfect construction, the work resists fixed resolution and instead becomes a meditation on visibility, alienation, and the insistence of shared humanity.

Alexis Fredericks, HUMAN., double-sided quilt installation examining memory, identity, and inherited histories through screen printing and appliqué. Side 1: English
Alexis Fredericks, HUMAN., double-sided quilt installation examining memory, identity, and inherited histories through screen printing and appliqué. Side 2: Russian