A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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What Next?, 1996
74" x 38"
Photo silk-screened, stenciled, over-dyed and commercially available cotton fabrics; painted polyester; string. Machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
I'm still playing with language and layering. After Boris Yeltsin won the 1996 presidential election, the newspaper Izvestia ran the headline "Democracy Wins/What Next?". Having been in Russia a few months earlier, that phrase had a certain resonance for me. I hope this quilt--albeit with its surreal, floating shapes--captures some of the color and feel of Moscow.