Mini Quilts
Living Language Land
Living Language Land is living document that keeps alive words related to land that do not have a direct english translation. Per the website they are self described as "a journey through endangered and minority languages that reveal different ways of relating to land and nature". (Learn more here).
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Roughly meaning animal tracks, the process below represents the uniqueness of specific animal tracks. The “object or event that was originally thought to be one thing unexpectedly turns out to be something else.”
Process: The quilt is a physical representation of a digital image created using an algorithm I wrote on Processing, a coding platform. The base image was of animal tracks. The algorithm “sliced” it up several times to create a unique footprint that, like a snowflake, would only ever be reproduced once. Embroidery and free-motion quilting were used to recreate the “slicing” and uniqueness of the computer-generated graphic.
12" x 12"
2024 · For Sale, Contact if Interested
Napuro
Napuro, or, "a forest that looks like ‘an island within an island" yields from the Philippino culture. Characterized by large older trees in the middle, outlined with huge rocks, within Napuro resides a resides the "lure of the unknown".
Process: The quilt is a physical representation of a digital image created using an algorithm I wrote on Processing, a coding platform. The base image was of a large tree in a Napuro on Cuyo island. The resulting image was lasered into layers of mesh and hand-dyed fabric to create layers of secrecy and wonder within the quilt. Extra stitching emphasizes the darker forms of the tree that also happen to mimic a map of a Napuro on an island
12" x 12"
2024 · For Sale, Contact if Interested
Negative Space I
Based on an abstracted landscape composition, this work uses color groups of scraps from portrait projects to create double negative space. In other words, which part is the "negative space" is purposefully ambiguous.
12" x 12"
Recycled Textiles, Quilted
2023
Almost Equal
Almost Equal is a foundation paper piecing pattern I created myself. It uses the mathematical symbol for congruency, to suggest a sense of near equality. It is a rose-colored statement about social equity, justice, environmentalism, and using math to describe nuance. The geometry around the shape suggests perfection and balance while the white image does quite the latter.
Almost Equal II & III & IV
Recycled Textiles, Quilted
II and III and IV are duplicates of each other
14" x 14"
2023-2024
Almost Equal I
Recycled Textiles, Quilted
14" x 14"
2023
Wonderland, 2021
After Portrait of an American, this piece was an exercise in developing my own quilted applique portraiture style. Inspired by the magic of the flowers scene from Alice in Wonderland, I sought to recreate that magic and illusion through color, pattern, thread choice, and the three-dimensional result of quilting. Experiments with metallic threads, leaf texture details, and shading/highlights with both fabric and thread seek to further the idea of "painting with fabric", convincing the viewer of one cohesive image despite many parts. These exact same techniques and learned practices were implemented in the subsequent portfolio, "A Walk in Their Shoes".