R.I.S.E.
The Initiative
‘The Rising’ is a quilt in collaboration with Artist Sunaina Bhalla, documenting a journey of resilience and representative of the connections within our web of life both physically and spiritually. It elicits the power of art to bring us together to rediscover our strengths, our limits, our wounds, and our healing, reinforcing our belief that what binds us together has far more bearing on our existence.
It all began with a simple piece of cloth: a discarded remnant from a tailor’s bench. And then another piece was added, and then another, and another… The women stitched over conversations, stories, and songs, until it became a quilt.
It represents a community. It is history. It is memories.
It is tradition. It is warmth.
It is home.
Thotpot is a not-for-profit organization working with communities at grass roots level to inspire people through the arts.
For over ten years, Thotpot has recognized the value of traditional craft practices, bringing together people who do not ordinarily see themselves as artmakers or creative practitioners. Yet thanks to the safe spaces Thotpot provides, along with their steadfast encouragement and tenacious commitment, the organisation has planted and nurtured new routes of imaginative and collaborative practice, providing meaningful and sustainable change to all the people they work with.
