"Pieced together from an immense variety of textures, shapes, colors, and patterns, the work of fiber artist Melinda Moore Lampkin creates vibrant, powerful scenes of African American life. Using materials gathered from across the world and down the street, brought to her by friends or passed down through the generations like heirlooms, Lampkin shapes images of the real world with the imaginative hands of an artist, capturing the simple moments of life in a lively collage of fabric"--Back cover