The spinners at the local cafe in Hudson, NY- every Tuesday night- letting it fly- a great group of woman organizing their art together around the flying wheels.
. . . embellishment and decoration.
There is a gap between the quilted object we create and the words we use to describe them.
We attempt to close the gap. We make quilts and then it is our responsibility to respond to and indentify meaning in our own work.
We use descriptions which sometimes have little to do with objects and more to do with processes and the way objects come into being.
Some words and images point to influences. Some words describe specific objects (size, shape, color) and others attempt to describe the way language connects us to and propels us through conversations about quilts in our culture.
Ultimately we create narratives- in the objects that bind traditional narrative threads of nostalgia with contemporary narrative threads in the new quilts and meanings we create.
The effect is to have craft be the continuous unbroken experience of making and responding to quilted objects.
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