A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Hear the Difference,1994
48" x 36"
Stenciled, photo silkscreened, and commercially available cottons and silk, some over-dyed; machine pieced, hand appliquéd and hand quilted. Photo credit: Robin Schwalb.
A quilt carefully constructed to look deconstructed, inspired by urban walls covered with layered, ripped and weathered posters. This piece is full of references to sound, music, and sound reproduction. The lone Japanese ideogram means "ear" or "hearing." The quote stenciled on the bottom-most layer refers to a young tribal woman in Siberia who, in 1898, laughed and cried with excitement upon hearing her own voice recorded and played back. That same combination of fear and joy lights up Nanook of the North's face, in Robert Flaherty's 1922 documentary film, as he listens to a wind-up Victrola. Nowadays, we often take the machines in our lives so much for granted that we've lost the sense of wonder they ought to engender in us.