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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Heather Schulte
Description
Heather Schulte is chronicling COVID-19 in the United States with a data visualization project, hand-stitching each confirmed case and death on a scroll of fabric. “Situation Report” began as a solitary ritual but has grown with the pandemic into such a big project that her neighbors are now joining in the stitching process. This project is dedicated to her uncle who she lost to COVID-19 in April. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
A
Hi,
I'm
heather
schulte,
I'm
an
artist
in
boulder.
I
work
mostly
in
textiles
techniques
and
explore
kind
of
the
inner
relationship
between
systems
of
communication
and
how
that
affects.
We
interact
with
other
people
and
and
understand
the
world
around
us
and
vice
versa.
How?
Because
we
create
systems
of
communication.
A
So
I
was
just
laying
in
bed
when
I
go
to
sleep
and
this
idea
of
documenting
the
actual
case
numbers
came
into
mind.
I
had
a
long
roll
of
fabric
that
I
picked
up
at
recreative
in
denver,
and
so
I
just
started
stitching
case
by
case
day
by
day,
and
then
that
grew
really
quickly.
It
was
the
data
visualization
impact
of
that
was
like
whoa.
A
So
because
it's
so
long,
I
can,
you
know,
lay
it
out
on
a
long
table
and
we
can
have
a
few
people
working
on
it
at
the
same
time
while
wearing
masks-
and
I
have
seen
like
hand
sanitizer
and
all
that
stuff
available,
and
so
that's
been
a
way
to
just
kind
of
you
know
you
just
sit
whether
it's
in
silence
and
doing
something
calm
or
conversations
about
covet
or
just
you
know.
How
are
your
kids
doing.
A
Yeah,
because
I
mean
we're-
I
mean
that's
right
now:
it's
what
like
a
million
almost
1.5
million
people
like
case
wise,
so
that's
like
1.5
million
stitches,
that's
a
lot
and
so
being
able
to
partner
with
someone
and
taking
this
into
a
more
therapeutic
and
reparative
type
of
community
impact
would
be
really
great
and
I'd
really
love
to
do
that
me
doing
that
on.
My
own
is
going
to
be
very
hard
totally.
If
there's
anyone
out
there,
that's
interested
in
having
a
conversation
about
what
that
might
look
like.
A
I
would
love
to
hear
from
you,
so
that's
kind
of
like
the
baseline
goal
is
just
helping
people
to
reckon
with
what
these
numbers
mean
and
because
everyone
has
a
different
approach.
Everyone
has
a
different
opinion,
but
the
fact
is
that
we're
all
in
this
and
it's
all
yeah,
but
it's
affecting
all
of
us
in
some
way
shape
or
form.
So,
hopefully,
the
act
of
sitting
together
and
stitching,
even
if
people
come
from
very
different
perspectives,
would
open
the
ability
to
have
a
dialogue,
typically,
not
an
argument.