hot pink kusikus (for blossom)

Hot Pink Kusikus was commissioned by Transmissions Quilts, an oral history and quilt project that marks time and life across transition. This quilt invokes one unit of the Ilokano kusikus pattern, a whirlwind pattern meant to protect wearers from negative spirits. Historically used on sails, the pattern is intended to calm the wind spirits and calm the sea as people navigate the oceans.

This quilt was created with intentions to protect its recipient, Blossom, with ancestral and intergenerational protection.