Valarie Lee James

Valarie Lee James

Valarie Lee James is an Artist, Writer and Benedictine Oblate on the AZ-MX Border called to contemplative arts, activism, and ecology. Find her at www.ArtandFaithintheDesert.wordpress.com

The Migrant Quilt

Journal Article

Each quilt represents countless lives lost on border ground, a hundred-mile strip of geography spanning two countries. The interstitial border region has morphed into a distinct culture of its own and the quilts, with their binational contributors, fly its flag.