A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk, 2006
38" x 36"
Stenciled, photo silk- screened, commercially available cotton fabrics; fabric paint. Machine pieced, hand appliquéd; hand quilted. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
It's an impossible, noisy, invigorating, endlessly varied and fascinating city, with one of the most beautiful skylines in the world, but to work and commute and live here is often a far less grand experience. "Don't Even THINK of Parking Here," an old parking sign from the days of Mayor Koch, is as pure an expression of NY, with all of its frustrations and attitude and arrogance and wit, as one could possibly want. This quilt combines the official, rule-laden side of the polis--and
the anarchic presence of graffiti artists. The heart ("for pride, for country, for baseball" in Spanish) and the stomach ("Yonah Schimmel's Knishes," in Yiddish) are referenced, as well as the life of the mind (in quotes from E. B. White's classic essay, Here is New York and from Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson). There are bits and pieces of my own history, in the form of old phone numbers, and the small portraits of my husband and myself as movie projectionists,