A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Lost in Translation, 1995
75" x 55"
Commercially available, photo silk-screened, dyed, and discharge dyed cottons, which were then stenciled with fabric paint. Machine pieced, hand appliquéd, and hand quilted. A quilted noren. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
An attempt to describe an extraordinary event that I experienced while looking out a jet window at the sunrise. The story unfolds, one letter per 2" block, across the whole surface. Alas, the text fails to adequately explain what happened, the piece hardly resembles the beauty of the scene, and the Japanese ideogram ('sun' or 'day') is apparently not quite the right one, either: truly, the whole thing is lost in translation!