On Mother’s Day in 1987, 430 Minnesotan women all over the age of 60 gathered in Minneapolis under the direction of artist Suzanne Lacy in order to combat media conceptions of older women by asserting their importance and underutilized ability as an older demographic. Lacy’s two-year project investigating the experiences and perceptions of older women culminated in a performance in which these 430 women were arranged into a human quilt. A recording of their experiences, along with investigations of perceptions of elderly women, played in the background while the women systematically changed the position of their hands to create the illusion of a different quilt patterns. This project cleary frees itself from the binds of youthfulness that popular culture so vehemently chases after. In a world where beauty and youth are power, the point of view of an elderly woman is too often forgotten or discarded. Lacy therefore questions social norms by asserting the importance of elderly women and empowering their important point of view.