One Hundred Quilts
One Hundred Quilts
One Hundred Quilts
Description: mother artist quilt maker hand stitching inner life time is material
The two-sided nature of quilts and textiles is what I am concerned with in this exhibition. Quilts are not paintings. Paintings can be powerful but they communicate with one side and all textiles are double sided. Think about how we experience a quilt, when you pull it over you; the decorative side on top is what shows, but the side that touches your body is the back side. Quilts are very much concerned with touch, not only the touch of the maker, but how they touch the body.
The outside of the textile that shows on the outside or the top of a quilt is only half of it. The other half of this diptych is the on the inside.
Over the last few years, I've been thinking about the two-sidedness of humans. What's going on in our other side? What's going on inside me? We don't really have a name for this interior space. Is it the spirit? the soul? It's where memories are, and where dreams are, and ideas are.
One Hundred Quilts
One Hundred Quilts
One Hundred Quilts