The Quilt

The Justice Storytelling Quilt.

WELCOME TO THE INTERACTIVE JUSTICE STORYTELLING QUILT
Each patch is a symbolic descriptive image produced by victims and offenders from across Canada. There are 40 blocks with 13 stories in French and 27 in English.

The purpose of the Quilt is to bring us together so that we may empathize with the suffering, hope and courage of victims and offenders. May this Quilt inspire us and give us courage to talk about the sorrowful events in our own lives.

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A click on any patch will activate a two minute audio testimony by its designer, describing the sorrowful event that took place in his/her life.

Quilt 1- Sunrise

Sunrise – teaches us to enjoy life and to take each day as it comes

Quilt 2- A butterfly

A butterfly for his own transformation, a heart for the love in his life, and a flower for his children.
Quilt 3 – Sun window with bars, flowers. Represents how he feels about looking out from the inside.
Quilt 4 – There is a closed flower that couldn’t blossom under the dark cloud. That is how she used to be. Now there is a glorious flower in bloom under the sun, which is how she feels now.
Quilt 5 – Colombe de la paix/Peace Dove. It continue d’essayer de trouver le paix dans lui-même/As he tries to find peace with himself.
Quilt 6 – A sun with twelve rays, one for each of the participants in the Restorative Justice “Rencontre Detenu-Victime” programme.
Quilt 7 – Flowers and photo of her late children.
Quilt 8 – At first there was light, then the wave that brings the sorrow. Now the wave connects the two.

Quilt 9 – Katy: Bob’s triathlon medal ribbon; flame represents New Years Eve 1997, the night Bob was killed; plaid from Bob’s wedding quilt is on the ground; fleece pants as Mountain which is Squamish; plaid from children’s school uniforms is water for crossing to Victoria; heart and sky are fabric from children’s nursery; moon from new husband’s robe because he is watching over them all; Bob’s funeral ribbon; fabric as jail bars and feather which is Ryan.

Quilt 10 – A wolf which was Chris’s symbol, a beam of light that she (his mother) saw after he had passed and a star because he was her bright star.

Quilt 11 – For Kevin: feather was part of his Pow Wow Regalia, and the blue and white border is part of his baby sleeper.

Quilt 12 – Peeling back the mask of a perceived monster to see who is really underneath.

Quilt 13 – Sun to shine light on the people that need it most.

Quilt 14 – No matter what, I’ve always been a star. I started out small and life was hell which kept me small. Then I started to get bigger and now I got backbone!

Quilt 15 – Picture of Martin.

Quilt 16 – Soccer for who he is; question mark for the uncertainty of his future; daisy is for Katy.

Quilt 17 – Clothes and photo of sister.
Quilt 18 – The ripple effect – “what he did affected me and what I did affected her.”
Quilt 19 – A heart with two halves: one is dark, the other light. There is now a little bit of light in the darkness, a mirror that reflects light into the place where there is so much pain. And in the light side, where she lives mostly now there is still some dark.
Quilt 20 – Bright colored abstract represents how crazy his life was. The flowers are for hope, the mirrors reflect who he is.
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