A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Introductory Japanese, 1990
45" x 45"
Stenciled and commercially available cottons; machine pieced and hand appliquéd; hand quilted. Photo credit: Robin Schwalb.
The written word has been a recurring theme in many of my quilts. Anticipating the calligraphic beauty of the signs in Tokyo, I was shocked to see English used extensively. However, one quickly discovers how fractured English a la Japanese is. (What does “I feel Coke” mean, exactly?) This piece combines many of the words and phrases which so amused me in Japan. The colors accurately reproduce those of the original signs. While red, white and blue are associated with the United States (and I have never felt so American as when in Japan), the combination of blue and white or red and white is equally Japanese.