This is my version of Caryl Breyer Fallert's Illusion which won a red ribbon, 2nd place at the 10th Annual Heritage Quilt Show in Whg, WV. I call it "Balancing the Chakras" and I can't wait until I can make another, similar one. It was really fun to make. I love the tight, orderliness of the spectrum, and then breaking it, scattering the light by interweaving two pyramids is exciting, energizing--like balancing the chakras.
I did it! I broke into the traditional local quilt show with "Breathe" this fused piece that won a first place, blue ribbon. I am shocked that this very modern art quilt even placed. Yippee!
Blog readers may remember that I'm not too confident about my machine quilting, but this quilt proves to me that I am improving.
Maybe my friends and I have been spending too much time in hospitals having tests run, but my first response to this quilt is--lung x-ray, followed by monitors, followed by calm breathing and peace amidst fear and pain.
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PURLS OF WISDOM
"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis
"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius
"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis
Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.
Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe
Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly
--Sam Francis
"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius
"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis
Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.
Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe
Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly
3 comments:
Congratulations on execution of Caryl's pattern and on your original quilt!
Congratulations Cheryl! These are both compelling, but I especially like "Breathe". Jen
Congratulations! What exciting news...maybe you're introducing some other quilters to art quilting!
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