Life After Death Quilts

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Gumbo

Published on March 19, 2009 with 10 Comments">10 Comments


Anne Brenneke made these quilts as part of her graduation project. They feature four deceased hip-hop icons: The Notorious B.I.G., Big L, Eazy E, and J Dilla. I think they’re way better than the snuggie. Peep more quilts and a video of Anne Brenneke after the gap.

Biggie Smalls

Big L

J Dilla

Eazy E

Anne Brenneke explains the quilts…or something (Can someone please translate this?)

Visiting Anna Brenneke’s Studio

Who is pictured on this quilt?
“This is Notorious B.I.G. He always wore these coogi sweaters. Obviously this isn’t an original coogi sweater, nobody can afford that. I always thought the sweaters looked really nice, and I tried to recreate them in my own way.”

From what materials do you make your Quilts?
“Usually I work with t-shirts, they are my foundation, and I try to develop different things out of them. I mostly just use used t-shirts, I like their aesthetics.”

(Talking about the Dilla Quilt)
“This is my largest piece. It is the most intricate one. Its a J Dilla album Cover from his album Welcome to Detroit. Parts of it are really thick, here for example there are 7 layers.”

Do you create all the Quilts by hand?
“Yea that’s all done by hand, completely. These layers are sewn on top of each other by hand. If you look at the back the stitch goes trough a layer of cotton and then into this jersey material.”

What’s you first work step?
“I take a black & white picture, separate it into different layers. I assign numbers to each color I’m using and write the numbers on the picture. Then I just sew according to that layout.”

“This is Eazy-E, it was the first quilt I made. It was still relatively simple with the colors, I was still learning how to do it, how to layer it etc. I still used really small stitches back then.”

Where does the love for American Hip Hop culture come from?
“Tv and everything. It was just all so much cooler than anything that we knew. Looking back on it now you can see it more critical, but back then….”

(Translated by TruSR)

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  • TruSR

    Visiting Anna Brenneke’s Studio

    Who is pictured on this quilt?

    “This is Notorious B.I.G. He always wore these coogi sweaters. Obviously this isn’t an original coogi sweater, nobody can afford that. I always thought the sweaters looked really nice, and I tried to recreate them in my own way.”

    From what materials do you make your Quilts?

    “Usually I work with t-shirts, they are my foundation, and I try to develop different things out of them. I mostly just use used t-shirts, I like their aesthetics.”

    (Talking about the Dilla Quilt)
    “This is my largest piece. It is the most intricate one. Its a J Dilla album Cover from his album Welcome to Detroit. Parts of it are really thick, here for example there are 7 layers.”

    Do you create all the Quilts by hand?

    “Yea that’s all done by hand, completly. These layers are sewn on top of each other by hand. If you look at the back the stitch goes trough a layer of cotton and then into this jersey material.”

    Whats you first work step?
    “I take a black & white picture, seperate it into different layers. I assign numbers to each colour I’m using and write the numbers on the picture. Then I just sew according to that layout.”

    “This is Eazy-E, it was the first quilt I made. It was still relativley simple with the colours, I was still learning how to do it, how to layer it etc. I still used really small stitches back then.”

    Where does the love for American Hip Hop culture come from?

    “Tv and everything. It was just all so much cooler than anything that we knew. Looking back on it now you can see it more critical, but back then….”

    I just translated it freely from German, cleaned up some of the awkward/hard to translate wording.

    Wow, procrastinating on college work by translating online videos…this is a new low.

  • TruSR

    Visiting Anna Brenneke’s Studio

    Who is pictured on this quilt?

    “This is Notorious B.I.G. He always wore these coogi sweaters. Obviously this isn’t an original coogi sweater, nobody can afford that. I always thought the sweaters looked really nice, and I tried to recreate them in my own way.”

    From what materials do you make your Quilts?

    “Usually I work with t-shirts, they are my foundation, and I try to develop different things out of them. I mostly just use used t-shirts, I like their aesthetics.”

    (Talking about the Dilla Quilt)
    “This is my largest piece. It is the most intricate one. Its a J Dilla album Cover from his album Welcome to Detroit. Parts of it are really thick, here for example there are 7 layers.”

    Do you create all the Quilts by hand?

    “Yea that’s all done by hand, completly. These layers are sewn on top of each other by hand. If you look at the back the stitch goes trough a layer of cotton and then into this jersey material.”

    Whats you first work step?
    “I take a black & white picture, seperate it into different layers. I assign numbers to each colour I’m using and write the numbers on the picture. Then I just sew according to that layout.”

    “This is Eazy-E, it was the first quilt I made. It was still relativley simple with the colours, I was still learning how to do it, how to layer it etc. I still used really small stitches back then.”

    Where does the love for American Hip Hop culture come from?

    “Tv and everything. It was just all so much cooler than anything that we knew. Looking back on it now you can see it more critical, but back then….”

    I just translated it freely from German, cleaned up some of the awkward/hard to translate wording.

    Wow, procrastinating on college work by translating online videos…this is a new low.

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  • Manuva

    @TruSR:
    Great job for the translation. It’s crazy to see this girl’s love of real hip-hop icons. That J-Dilla one got me trippin’.

  • Manuva

    @TruSR:
    Great job for the translation. It’s crazy to see this girl’s love of real hip-hop icons. That J-Dilla one got me trippin’.

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    TruSR:

    Danke! Danke!! You, TruSR, are a genuine TRUbian. I owe you one autographed copy of the Internetz.

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    TruSR:

    Danke! Danke!! You, TruSR, are a genuine TRUbian. I owe you one autographed copy of the Internetz.

  • moneda

    “Looking back on it now you can see it more critical, but back then….”

    Heh, I very much agree.

    Thanks, again, TruSR.

  • moneda

    “Looking back on it now you can see it more critical, but back then….”

    Heh, I very much agree.

    Thanks, again, TruSR.

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  • TruSR

    Yo no problem…its more fun than Calculus Homework lol…

  • TruSR

    Yo no problem…its more fun than Calculus Homework lol…

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