Quilt 21 – Before Restorative Justice “Rencontre Detenu-Victime” the eyes watching over him saw only darkness, now since RDV, there is some life and hope.

Quilt 22 – Fire that took her mother and sister away. Forgiveness is for the man who started the fire. Also a flute because her sister played the flute.

Quilt 23 – Bottom circle equals conflict and out of conflict roots grow out and can be binding but through the restorative process you can free your hands to help others.

Quilt 25 – Un coeur brisée qui essait de se réparer/A broken heart trying to mend.

Quilt 26 – Photo of her daughter.

Quilt 27 – Fabric from her brother’s shirt; Water for the Victoria-Vancouver crossing; Hearts are for love; candles is for Christmas, which he loved; orange flame is for the demons in his life; red AIDS ribbon because he was HIV positive.

Quilt 29 – Sister as an angel or apparition that is never far away. Picture represents meeting between survivor and offender 23 years later.

Quilt 30 – Crime scars the fabric of the community. It’s messy and unfinished. The courts try and sanitize it but where it comes from is not sanitized but messy. There are always loose threads in our mending of the community fabric.

Quilt 31 – Les mains qui se joinent pour demander le pardon, les yoeux qui voie tout, et le fleur qui est son esprit.

Quilt 33 – “Through the restorative justice movement my life has come full circle.”

Quilt 34 – Looking in at his son, who is looking out.

Quilt 35 – Pink on the inside represents how she used to be and red which is anger is how she is now.

Quilt 37 – People see things through a variety of filters in order to arrive at what is true. When we don’t look through the filters, truth is distorted and that results in anger, confusion and alarm. Truth is like the perfect flower. It is pure, unadulterated, and timeless. Our justice system was to seek and reflect truth in all its complications. Increasingly we see the truth only through many filters, biases, and agendas. The bars between us and the flower. Created out of our adversarialism and specialization. Media needs to sell papers and air time. Parties directly involved in enforcement and judiciary have career and monetary biases. Politicians need to get elected. Lobby groups and social organizations have biased goals to achieve. Because of the way these filters biases, and agendas are presented to us, our perceptions of the truth is often so often so adulterated that we cannot make sense of the resulting picture (the adulterated flower). As a result, we react n anger, confusion, confusion, and ear, and divorce ourselves from fully seeking out the truth and understanding.

Quilt 38 – Red circle represents spiritual love.

Quilt 39 – His name means White Bear.