This quilt's beginnings are a little bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps I was thinking about printing text. Perhaps I was thinking about the title of my quilt, "Breaking Day," for which I was contacted for a KQED article about the San Francisco Bay Area's "Orange Sky Day." Perhaps I suddenly remembered gel medium transfers. I know I was energized by visiting galleries at Minnesota Street Project and my friend Carole Jeung's show at hugomento a few days earlier.
In any case, I set down a trimmed sheet of newspaper on some waxed paper, painted the paper with gloss gel medium and smoothed it onto a piece of white cotton. After it was dry, I wet it and rubbed away the newspaper, leaving the reverse printing in the gel medium like an amber fossil. As usual I had to cut it up and arrange it, again in the quarter log cabin pattern. I like having a form to work within.
Oh, I remember a little of what was going through my head: What's Black and White and Red all over?
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