Red Giant: Cosmic Illusion #67
 

Salli McQuaid: Red Giant, 22”w x 18.5”h, fabrics, threads, trims, crystals, 2009.

Artist’s Statement

 I am really interested in astronomy, and when I learned that “red giants” are the smallest stars in the universe and that our sun falls into that category, I simply had to do a portrait of our sun in red. An interesting aspect of the quilt “Red Giant” is that the sun image contains many straight angles, resembling somewhat the refractions of light.