A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Let X = X, 1986
39" x 72"
Cottons and woolen fabrics. Machine pieced, hand quilted. Photo credit: eeva-inkari.
This was my first quilt to use writing as part of its design. Begun simply to use the visually hot color combination of red and magenta, my interest in language emerged and came to dominate the surface. There are parts of English, Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic letters, as well as astrological, electronic and mathematical symbols. There is no message spelled out by these symbols and letters. Perhaps they represent a naive and idealistic plea for understanding. The title is part of a song title by the American performance artist Laurie Anderson. It leapt into my mind as soon as I visualized the quilt’s design. The design also has great personal resonance: my father ‘had’ six or seven languages, in varying degrees. He died a year before this quilt was begun; it is a tribute to him and the love of language that is my inheritance.