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Eva Salazar, Monument Quilt Block

Monument Quilt Block is a 8’x8’ fabric and sharpie marker piece created in 2017 by Eva Salazar, FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, and Anonymous Artists. The quilt square is divided into four quadrants and has a variety of fabric squares in different colors and patterns with a solid red background. Salazar’s is in the upper left quadrant. Salazar’s block is solid red and is flanked by two thick, white columns. The center is composed of block letters in uppercase which are cut out of pale green, smooth fabric that spell out a message in Spanish (From top left to bottom right): “No hay culpa en tu silencio asegura. Tu sobre-vivencia.” There are several small, handwritten messages in dark blue sharpie markers in some of the letters that spell out an additional message. (From top left to bottom right): “Yo temo que mi Papá me culparia por lo que pasó.” The upper right panel is solid red, with uppercase black letters written in sharpie in the center saying “My body is beyond what you made it.” Right underneath the end of the sentence, there is a rectangle of white fabric with additional black sharpie writing inside partially in all caps and then lowercase within two parentheses, which reads: “I am healing (no thanks to you).” The bottom left quadrant has a solid red background with a folded over, peach-colored, wrinkled-looking piece of cloth that creates the shape of a sideways V. The bottom right quadrant is a solid red with three plant stems in the center with light green and lavender leaves on them, all made out of cut up pieces of fabric. The leaves have the details of their veins drawn on in green marker. There is one leaf off of the stems in the upper right corner of the block.