Constitution Hill

From QuiltIndex

The Centre was commissioned by Judge Albie Sachs to make two quilts on the theme of justice for the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. In December/January 2007 Orla O’Flanagan, Tarot Couzyn and Jeni Couzyn worked with the Pomegranate group on the quilts, and they were delivered at the end of January. The first, called The Freedom Quilt, shows the pool of Bethesda, (traditionally a pool of healing), with Nelson Mandela in the centre creating the ripples that spread out into human rights, the first democratic election, and Freedom Day being celebrated in Bethesda 10 years on. The second quilt, called The Truth Tree, is about injustice as it is experienced in the personal lives of the Pomegranate women. Albie Sachs described the quilts as ‘a triumph’.

"This information originally gathered in 2010 by Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State University Museum, during research on quilt history in South Africa that was supported by a fellowship from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at University of Nebraska-Lincoln with additional in-kind support from Michigan State University Museum."