A combination of some commercially printed cloth of a world map originally purchased in 2023 for “Count Zero Point One” (and later included recently in “Breaking News from the Sea”), remnants from my quilt “Tempest” and a cascade of scraps of a red Japanese yarn-dyed cloth leftover from something I don’t remember, came together as a visual comment and expression of the chaotic and dangerous world today.
Fractured
16"w x 21.25"h (40.5 cm x 54 cm)
Letterpress printing from wood type on handpainted cotton; hand-dyed linen; cotton scraps; raw-edge appliqué; free-motion and machine quilted and joined
Details:
And the back (I turned many of the pieces over, so the quilt appears double-sided now):
Transformed from this:
To this:
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