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Cotton fabric, fabric paints and dyes, acrylic paints, quilt batting, cotton thread.
Gelatin plate printing, silkscreen printing using breakdown technique, fabric collage, free-motion machine quilting.Label Type
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Every bit of this quilt, including the binding, started as white cotton fabric. I used gelatin plate printing to create much of the fabric, and after seeing pictures of breakdown silkscreen printed fabric I taught myself to do it with the help of books and YouTube videos. The quilt itself is a collage of these hand-printed fabrics. The back of the quilt is made of squares that didn't make it onto the front, and forms a kind of record of my learning experience.
Rather than being a strict photographic copy of any particular real scene, I wanted this quilt to represent the feeling of late summer in the Sierra, when it's so hot and dry you feel like the entire landscape is just waiting for cooler weather, the colors of fall and the first snow. There is not much green left and even the trees are dusty and faded in the blazing mountain sun. The only relief comes from sunlight shimmering on the lakes, and the constantly shifting cloudscapes and sky colors.