Sometimes I awaken with colors or patterns that I often bring with me into the studio. A black and red pattern interested me, so I began with scraps of red cloth and the printed words leftover from Some Birds Fly (We Try Not to Interrupt Them But We Do). I pulled out three previously made stencils, two abstract, one of rows of eyes, and layered them onto both red and black fabric. Ahead of time I decided this quilt's form would be an attempt at joining the quarter log cabin pattern I had been exploring. Walking home from the Y the other day, I overheard a woman talking on her phone: “Snow?! God mad at all this chaos.” And so the quilt would be, because so red, titled, God Mad. Disrupting the pattern with a band of splatter-painted scraps and some erratic embroidery finished the piece.
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