Forest Fire

Name/Title

Forest Fire

Entry/Object ID

2010.02.01

Made/Created

Artist

Heide Stoll-Weber

Date made

1997

Place

City

Frankfurt

State/Province

Hesse

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

81 in

Width

49-1/4 in

Interpretative Labels

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Artist Commentary

Label

“I had started dyeing fabric professionally in 1994 and just managed to make a living from selling my fabrics,” writes Heide Stoll-Weber. “At that time I only allowed myself relatively small amounts to keep for my own artistic purposes. But – a little bit of everything can end up being quite a lot, too. So I ended up with all these strips of different width of a new batch of poplin that dyed beautifully. It was so wonderfully overwhelming to work with these that this particular piece almost made itself effortlessly on my workwall.”

General Notes

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Materials Used

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Cottons, hand-dyed by the artist

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Techniques Used

Note

Machine pieced, machine quilted