I feel most at home by the sea. So I am alarmed by the talk of mining the ocean. Haven't we humans done enough damage already to the land? Yes, we need resources, but surely there are more responsible ways to get them. Rant over. Start again.
I feel most at home by the ocean. It is like visiting an old friend, but I worry about its health and all the creatures that depend upon it, like the garibaldi fish who make their home among the kelp forests. There is still time to help.
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39"w x 44"h (99 cm x 112 cm)
Hand-dyed cotton and linen and linen gauze; stenciled with fabric paint; appliqué; reverse appliqué pleated; Japanese woven cotton; machine pieced and hand quilted with sashiko style "rising steam" and "fishing nets" and "fish scale" patterns
Details:
fishing net stitching in upper left; pleating and stenciled fish on left; linen gauze on right with tears and fish behind it
similar, with fishing net pattern in lower left:
linen gauze on left; appliqué fish; fish scale stitching; stenciled kelp with reverse appliqué
wider view of the appliquéed fish, one escaping, the others hiding
rising steam pattern at the top; bound with Japanese woven cotton; fish scale pattern below; reverse appliqué with stencil kelp image with hand-dyed cotton behind it
and the back:
A mixture of previously hand-dyed cloth and some new acrylic ink painted ones and the kelp stencil from previous quilts
(yes, my letterpress doubles as an ironing board)
Stenciled new garibaldi fish and older kelp stencil
Fish now pleated into their cloth, some composition being worked out:
On my way. But this quilt needed lots of attention to details, bit by bit. It felt more intense than some of the others I have made.
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