I must admit I am having a hard time finding my focus and getting back on track. I wander around asking myself where I last left my creative plans. What corner? What town? What day? So today I started reading a distracting and disturbing book by Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle. And I also started studying a tutorial on ebay selling. This was after I decided the piece above was one of those concoctions one attempts when one’s brain is a bit dizzy and the path crooked. It looked better after I threw the hexagon piecework over the top.
Then later I changed some pieces and added a few others along the side and top to confuse me even more. Perhaps it is that I have nothing to work with here. 95% of my supplies are in Oregon, and I will not be returning there for another week. I think the book and the tutorial will be my projects tomorrow unless I find a way to circumvent this morass of rectangles.
Well, sometimes it’s just necessary to try something….
Something that goes beyond the rational mind sometimes.
I liek where you are going. Maybe, just maybe the quilt is reflecting your book? You know, how art mirrors life?
Art does mirror life if it is honest in its approach. I haven’t torn it apart so maybe part of me is waiting to see where it might lead.
looks like it could be a garden plan to me.
A garden plan is good. Now if I were you, it would be planted with magical garden people and talking vegetables. Maybe your stories are influencing my thinking too. What a treat that would be!
I love the piece. The fabrics are lovely and will look even lovelier when you get home. You can add your fabrics from home and compliment the beauty.
I agree with Debraan, but I also think it looks like a sketch in fabric form, or first draft if you know what I mean, when I used to paint, it took a lot of sketches to arrive at the point that felt just right. It would have been lovely to reach that point first time, but it couldn never have happened without the sketches and drafts that built toward the final idea! The destination cannot be reached without the journey, and all the weird and wonderful twists, turns and even u-turns along the way! xx