Quarantine Art 2020 - Part 3
Work with Improv blocks continued with several larger quilts. Only four are represented here, as the others are still in process. Stay tuned! There is also a representation of the virus itself, followed by a return to Japanese Kimono Collages.
Waiting for the Music - City at Twilight
The city is quiet, streets empty, but inside the skyscrapers it is pulsing with restrained energy. Waiting. Waiting for the night. Waiting for the time when people can come back out. Waiting for the music and for dance.
Reflects my wondering about how and when and whether we can end the waiting. This art quilt is pieced from fabric scraps using improvisational quilting, then attached via appliqué to the Australian Aboriginal designed fabric that represents the twilight sky.
Round Robin for Two
The Round Robin for two quilt completed with my friend @wowquilts and it was a fun experience- and we even managed to get it and her quilt back and forth from NC to IL and back again several times during the pandemic. This definitely stretched both of us in different ways.
Building out
This quilt is in my improv comfort zone - adding on to a major focal fabric and building out from there. I chose colors I love and fabric in my stash, designing as I went along.
Seek Justice
I can’t speak from my own experience to the centuries of racism, so the best I can do is express my feelings through an art quilt. Peaceful protests work! Keep at it! Growing up in Berkeley during the 1960’s, I directly experienced violent riots, and peaceful protests. My accidental exposure to riots and to tear gas is not something anyone should have to experience. It is terrifying, and I still hold that fear when seeing riots. Peaceful protests are an empowering experience, feeling part of a process that leads to change. Those protests helped end the Vietnam war
Open to Interpretation
Here is a piece of textile art where, while stylized, should have an obvious central point - Coronavirus.
However, it could be interpreted in multiple ways. There are both positive and negative interpretations depending on how and when you look at it. It is made from vintage kimono silks and sari yarn.
Garden Fan
Made from tiny bits of vintage silk kimono fabric, this small piece reaches back to earlier kimono collage work.
Pure Bright Joy
Bright colors of vintage kimono silk bits and pieces. Purple and orange help bring happiness! And some Koi! Such a joy to simply select colorful textiles and simply go where they take you.
Spread Your Wings and Fly Away
This piece is focuses on a beautiful kimono fabric piece of a large crane. “Spread Your Wings and Fly Away” (h/t Queen: John Deacon and Freddie Mercury) Made entirely of recycled vintage kimono fabrics. Appliquéd and quilted
Netted
Vintage kimono silk is so precious that I want to use every tiny scrap. This rainbow of colorful scraps was appliquéd and then a stitched netting effect was added.