Jim Isermann’s nice, hand made quilts are not about warmth and cosiness, but rather they are an ice cold deconstruction of the optimistic patterns of the 1960s. A shaggy blanket is a typical item in a 1960s home: just like the ping- pong table and the dream of “the good life in the suburbs”. Isermann’s hand-sewn quilts are loaded with the optimism in the future which belongs to the clean, rational and, on the surface, happy 1960s. But how did the promised future turn out? Isermann’s non-figurative quilts are, on closer inspection, political triggers with the 1960s firmly in sight. During a time of social upheaval it is not enough to only devote oneself to producing escapist patterns.