


For some reason these last three quilts made me remember some textile work I did in the late 1970s when I lived on Maui. One piece I did was about the same size as Going in Circles, it had three Yin Yang symbols, or maybe they were Ouroboroses (an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle) batiked onto muslin, then dyed teal blue with Dylon dye, which was about all that was available in that time and place. Then batted and backed and hand quilted.
Another piece was done with textile crayons -- those things you color onto fabric with and heat set with an iron -- it was an image of a lush Maui mountainside, greens and browns, might have been inspired by a photograph I took with my Kodak InstaMatic, also batted, backed and hand quilted. Shortly after finishing these, I hung them in a wannabe cafe in Makawao, adjacent to PuPu's, the little homemade take-out deli where I was a cook, and within a day they'd been stolen off the walls.
Not much more to say about that. But it is interesting that my art quilting vision now is virtually the same as it was back then ~~ Make wonderful fabric and quilt it!
10 comments:
"Board Walk" popped out at me Connie.
YES, painting after quilting is scary the first time, then you get so you wonder how each piece will look if you painted it....LOL!
GREAT JOB!
WOW. That's amazing. Give it a number.
I've enjoyed looking at your blog -great quilts & surface design work.
Hi Connie. I see the name "off the pier."
...sittin' on the dock of the bay...
Seems right to me. I love this one! It's cool and refreshing, and asking me to dive in.
How about 'raft' ? Although 'boardwalk' came in to my mind, too. Lovely work.
I see a gate: The Gate to Blue.
Love it...
向著星球長驅直進的人,反比踟躕在峽路上的人,更容易達到目的。............................................................
Well somehow I missed this post!
I think adding paint to this quilt was absolutely the right choice... this is a wonderful piece.
人生是故事的創造與遺忘。............................................................
Post a Comment