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My quilting adventure began in traditional styles learned from my grandmothers.
Early on, I began to evolve my
own style. For many years, quilted art clothing was my medium. Today, art quilts hold my fancy. I draw inspiration from spiritual legacies and cosmologies. Currently,
I am translating techniques for manipulating fabric and jewelry construction into quilts. I am drawn to balancing perceived opposites
in my work - “soft” and “hard”. “light” and “dark”, “fixed” and
“fluid”, “serious” and “whimsical”.
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Ecstatic
Wisdom 1st place, “Twirls, Swirls, and Pearls”
American Sewing Expo, Novi, Michigan
September 2007
Inspired
by the spiral as a symbol of change, transformation, and creativity. The Sufi dervishes twirl into an ecstatic union with
the divine, leading them to “pearls of wisdom”. Incorporating the twirling spiral lifts the traditionally static
state of a quilt into a dynamic process of movement. The varying techniques are symbolic of the many paths of creation and
transforming power. Techniques: Painted & stamped fabric and Tyvec, foiled velvet,
wrapped and coiled silver wire, woven tyvec, heated tyvec, swirled fabric, fantasy fabric, freshwater and faux pearl embellishment
and corregated fabric.
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Star Stuff
The whirling energy of the cosmos, the symbolic story of humanity
and the
stream of life are represented in this quilt.
This
is our story.
We are all starstuff.
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All Hallow's Eve
A
celebration of interdependence - a
celebration of intertwining light and dark commemorating the age-old theme of embracing life and death - the intersection of what has been,
what is and what will be.
If one looks closely, the images of
smiling ghosts and dancing skeletons emerge as messengers of the possibilities of transforming fear of the dark into welcoming
change.
For
me, quilts express the joy, awe, and wonder of the emerging expressions of the Divine.
Without
the dark, we could not see the stars.
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