Digital Fiber
A photograph of a reflection in a
store window filled with antique sewing machines of all varieties
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| detail |
Printed on Textured Molding Paste, stitched, and cut into
segments. Each segment is hand-tied together.
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| molding paste drying |
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| inkAid applied |
Digital Broadcloth, paint, medium,
pearl cotton & thread
34.5x45
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| on table with backing and getting ready to cut into segments |
Created for SAQA Silver Anniversary
A
photographic reflection of a storefront window filled with sewing machines.
This piece is dedicated to SAQA and the Machine that made modern fiber art
possible!
The
Machine
While
walking on a street in Boston with my son, we passed a storefront window filled
with antique sewing machines of all brands. What a delight! I took several
photographs because I found it so interesting. The glass of the window captured
the machines and the street we were standing on in a hazy reflection.
The combination of the old sewing
machines with the urban scene strike me as juxtaposition, representing the lengths that art quilting has traveled.
I
chose to present this image printed on a molding paste substrate. I prepared
interfacing as the substrate, spread on the paste & coated with an ink jet
preparation. The image was divided accordingly, printed and quilted.
Some
of the machines in the photograph are distorted and hazy so I quilted the
machines in black at first, but they needed some additional highlighting. I
choose a variegated black & silver to continue the theme of SAQA’s Silver
Anniversary.
Each
section was then reassembled viva hand stitching and tying. This technique
resembles how SAQA holds all of the great variety in the art quilt world
together.
Who
else would appreciate the sewing machine as much! This piece, The Machine, is
dedicated to SAQA and the Machine that made modern fiber art possible!
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| original photograph- can you see my son & me? |
