Fruit of My Flower
Patchwork, petals, and the patience of growing things.
Mia is a Chicago-based artist and horticulturist, living between the American Midwest and Accra, Ghana.
Her work is rendered in the tradition of patchwork. She creates layered compositions where place folds into season. It is an homage to her lineage of Black maternal quiltmakers of the African diaspora, who pieced together beauty from what they had and left it for us to carry forward.
Fruit of My Flower
Vol. 2
She has already opened. Every petal unfurled, all colour revealed.
This piece is a study of a peony in full bloom, rendered in the tradition of patchwork. Each layer a different fabric, a different texture. It is an homage to the Black maternal quiltmakers who pieced together beauty from what they had, and left it for us to carry forward.
Fruit of My Flower was born in the quiet of pregnancy and the tender chaos of postpartum, a meditation on seven years of growing things in the earth, and the revelation that a baby and a bloom ask the same thing of you. Faith, patience, and the willingness to be changed.
Every fruit was a flower first.
Limited edition of 15.
20×20”
Giclee print, on archival paper with a matte finish that produces rich and saturated colours, using archival pigment inks, designed to last for years without losing its original beauty.
A peony on the edge of bloom. Tight at the centrer & full of colour she hasn't shown yet.
This piece holds the tension of a woman in full bloom. The warm gold ground holds her like sunlight holds a bud.
Pieced in the tradition of quilting, this work carries the hands of the women who came before, the Black maternal makers of the African diaspora who understood that to stitch something together with care is an act of love, and of resistance.
From horticulturist to mother, from garden to studio, this collection is the fruit of that flowering.
Limited edition of 15. Signed and numbered.
20×20”
Giclee print, on archival paper with a matte finish that produces rich and saturated colours, using archival pigment inks, designed to last for years without losing its original beauty.
Bird of paradise reaching past bromeliad. The deep greens of Accra pressed up against the muted sage of a Chicago backyard, inherited and chosen, all of it growing together in the same frame because that is the truth of a layered life.
The garden has always been a character in this story. A living, breathing self-portrait, pieced together the way a quilt is pieced together, the way a life is: from what you've grown, where you've been, and who loved you into becoming.
This work carries three years of living between Ghana and home. And underneath all of it, the quiet hands of my Black maternal quiltmaking foremothers, of the African diaspora who knew long before us that to stitch disparate things together with intention is the highest form of art.
Limited Edition of 10. Signed and Numbered.
24x24”
Giclee print, on archival paper with a matte finish that produces rich and saturated colours, using archival pigment inks, designed to last for years without losing its original beauty.
This piece is a love letter to the little moments, and the quiet miracle of holding new life and feeling, for once, completely whole. The figure is every mother. She is draped in orchid and gold, her body and the bloom inseparable, because that is what this collection knows to be true: the woman and the garden are the same.
Pieced in the quilting tradition of the African diaspora, her body becomes a living fabric.
Limited edition of 10. Signed and numbered.
Giclee print, on archival paper with a matte finish that produces rich and saturated colours, using archival pigment inks, designed to last for years without losing its original beauty.
7 years ago in my backyard I began learning to steward plants from seed to fruit, I learned that every legume, vegetable and fruit must flower first.
Some flowers you plant. Some you are.
This collection is for the fruit. The child and the lineage. In honor of life that grew from years of tending what you couldn’t yet see.
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