Reason over Passion is often described as a quilt, which is accurate in that Wieland drew on the expertise of quilt-makers to fabricate it. She was inspired by an assertion made by newly elected prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, “Reason over passion—that is the theme of all my writing.”

With this piece Wieland creates the conditions under which the political meets the personal, a place where the masculinity of public life encounters feminized domesticity, and where reason and passion become bedfellows.