Just before I left Mendocino on Friday to return to Portland, I found this quilt up in the loft where my cat sleeps. Lately, I am drawn to some older pieces that I finished many years back (this one in 1983 or 1984). One tends to look hard into the colors, the design, for a road map of where one was going at the time, mentally and emotionally. I have some ideas, but nothing that spells concrete configurations. So I will relax and trust my thoughts of today on this piece. I hear music from it. I guess I keep seeing scales and notes. This is fine for now. Nothing else needs to be explored. Sometimes it can get too complicated if you think too much.
I think that is perfectly lovely. It brings to mind Navajo colors and the sky at sunset. It is very “comforting”, and I am not making a pun or jest.
there is peace in the horizontal.
It looks very comforting. Do the fabrics have their own stories?
I adore this quilt, I love your analogy to music, I agree with Pat, Jude & Vicky, it is so restful and peaceful. It also reminds me of a stave of written music, I can imagine dots upon something like it playing some kind of magical music, like notes upon a page.
very beautiful quilt!
Each piece a measure of time? Sometimes it really is important not to think too much.
Dear Phyllis, thank you for your kind comments on my blog. I’m surprised to se your work and very pleased to see you link it to music.
My love for textiles is the love for the things being done putting your heart into it. I actually beleive that you can conjure all good thoughts and put them in the things you are working on. Quite like a wodoo doll.
So if clothes are made while making people suffer, there can not be much good in them. Can we actually put something like that on?
Carry on with your work, there is lots of beauty in it.
Warm regards
Maria Paz
It’s lovely and serene and I can see the music also in it’s flow!
Funny for me to see these quilts. Immediately takes me back.
i like this very much…..good for you to accept, enjoy and not over-analyze. it is beautiful. fact.
Well I must admit, I am not one to let go and accept. My tendency would be to over-analyze everything, but it sure feels liberating to not do this once in a while.