"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things, of shoes & ships & sealing wax, & cabbages & kings."
My time is that of dispersing a slew of quilts in preparation for moving to a place with what I imagine will have far less storage space.
So I am going list the quilts in approximately order made, except at the end when I realized I had omitted a few. I'm also going to suggest a price, but will be donating the money to the Vancouver Art Gallery's Schools in Education Program, as I did before.
Bear in mind that many of these pieces can be hung horizontally or vertically.
Another thing I noticed is that I was, quite unselfconsciously, making work that was life-summarizing. The Measurement pieces, My Milagros, & The Girl I Was, particularly.
1. Swedish Summer (41 x 37) $350
2. 9 Transparent Circles (31 x 33) $150
details of a few milagros
4. Grey & Black Jeans (back) (39 x 42) $200
5. Measurements #1 (20 x 35) $150
[photo taken under not ideal lighting, but the #2 quilt photo is ideal]
6. Measurements #2 (20 x 38) $150
detail (entire text provided on request)
7. Swords & Chrysanthemums (35 x 36) $300
The dark blue cloth is very old Ikat weave from a flea market in Kyoto. The title refers to a famous book about Japan.
8. The Girl I Was, The Woman I Became (39 x 20) $150
9. Front Facing & Spirals (24 x 33) $200
10. Black & White Checkerboard (28 x 40) $300
11. Pied Checkers (35 x 35) $300
12. Fiji Hot & Humid (29 x23) $200
13. Many Blues (29 x 34) $150
14. Herons (29 x 27) $150
Arcs & Arches (26 x 39) $300
16. Things My Mother Said (30 x 30) $300
17. Zest for Life (26 x 33) $300
18. Shades of Grey (28 x 30) $250
19. ABQ, NM, USA (18 x 28) $150
20. Leftover Jean Pieces (34 x43) $300
(The upper left darker area is lighting issues, not a stain.)
23. Button Romance (~ 24 x 36)
Now for the pieces from my collection of quilts about numbers, Oh, Solo, Double, Trio. I decided it was easier to allow them to go forth into the world on their own. I tried trying to "sell/donate" them to 3 schools I went to & where I enjoyed earning math -- to no avail. Each was terrified of housing textiles.
Now for the pieces from my collection of quilts about numbers, Oh, Solo, Double, Trio. I decided it was easier to allow them to go forth into the world on their own. I tried trying to "sell/donate" them to 3 schools I went to & where I enjoyed earning math -- to no avail. Each was terrified of housing textiles.
All of these are 24 x 36, inches.
Note: I have not suggested prices here, because I think a possible buyer & I have to agree on a mutually agreeable numerical amount in tune with the quilt in question. But rest assured, I will not accept $0 for A Lot of Nothing, so don't even try that foolishness. (Rather jump to the other end & offer $infinity! Just kidding.)
A Lot of Nothing
details
detail
3 Points of Interest
4 Lenses for Looking at Numbers [in this case the #4, the mathematical lens. The others are scientific, linguistic, & cultural]
detail (the mathematical lense)
Knot, Pentagon, & Much More
(On the back of this piece is a spiral that is generated by squaring a side of a the rectangle... )
And there is quite a bit more than that.....
Hexominoes
This term erupted I think back in the days of new math: you know what a domino looks like-- two squares joined by a common side. Well, someone came up with triominoes, quadrominoes, pentominoes, etc. All kinds of games erupted from this new idea. This quilt is about one of the games. There are 6 faces to a cube.
My July 7 Birthdays
detail
Symmetric Numbers
The Magic of Nine
This "magic" is based on a special way of looking at the times table & of filling in the 'products'. Each entry comprised of two digits has the sum of this digits placed. For example.... 8x3 = 24. 24 is two digits so 6 gets entered instead of 24. Though if you look at 8x8=64 --> 6+4 = 10. That's another 2-digit number so 1+0 gets entered in place of 64. There are some lovely patterns that show up. The occurences of 1 & 8 on the resulting table are in the upper corners. 2s & 7s below them, 3s & 6s below that, & 4s & 5s in the lower corners. And 9s are amazing. All very 'pretty' as my college math teacher would have said.
Fingers & Toes
(mine)
Stars with 11 Points
(Maybe you know that a pentagram is a 5-point-star drawn with a continuous line. A hexagram is a star of David. Well, of course there are septagrams, ocatagrams, etc.)
Twelve Hour Clock
detail
4 x 13 Cards
(feminist's order)
The Look of Numbers
(The charm of the graphics of numbers, believe me it's a "thing"!)
What Grew from Mathematics
Years ago, out in Deep Cove, B.C, there was a call for a show based on "page 42". I entered the show with a handwritten copy of page 42 of Birkhoff & MacLane, Principles of Modern Algebra. I called this piece What Grew from Mathematics, because my interest in math & geometry had led to my making quilts. The overlay of cloth partly obscures the text, on purpose.
detail
A few years ago I tried reading the initial chapters of this textbook & was awed by my mathematical rustiness. I didn't get far.
Colophon
One of the things that drove my color choices for this body of work was the colors of the Cuisenaire rods. The numbers & the associated centimeter lengths from 1 to 10: white is one (which measures everthing), 2 is red, 3 is light green, 4 is maroon, 5 is yellow, 6 is dark green, 7 is black (because it is the only prime number under 10 that has no factoring friends) 8 is brown, 9 is blue, 10 is orange.
Title Page
That's it for now.
