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To a Garden: Cosmic
Illusion #3 |
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I had a wonderful, if exasperating, time doing this quilt. I used four botanical flower image panels for the backs of the four quads that comprise To a Garden, framing them in the traditional Grandma's Attic block. It was necessary to piece one row of each quad at a time to keep the background image intact. In the bottom left quad I moved some pieces around to create a more abstract interest. I highlighted some areas with embroidery. If you look closely, you can discern a pond and a fish within this quad. The quilt as a whole explores visual illusion in that it creates impossible perspective on two levels -- inside the quilt and the entire quilt. To a Garden is narrative, in that it creates a story of rooms that lead to a garden. It is, finally, a tribute to the garden. Quilt History: Selected for "Windows" exhibition, The Gallery at St. Johns,
Kingston, NY, 2007.
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