Danielle deo Owensby

Stitched in Silence

Informed by sexual abuse statistics provided by the non-profit organization Darkness to Light and United States census data, Stitched in Silence  visually portrays the staggering numbers childhood sexual abuse, specifically children impacted by the age of eight years old, which was the age I myself experienced this trauma. 

As part of a statewide initiative, I’ve been traveling across Michigan, creating a large bedsheet quilt/tarp proportional to each city's population and reflective of childhood sexual abuse statistics. 

One in every ten people will experience childhood sexual abuse. Of that number, one in five will experience it before the age of eight years old. Each bedsheet in one of my quilts represents a child's life that has been impacted by this type of abuse.

This series is a progression from my previous work, One Sheet for Each Day Since.