Lisa Call Make Me Post a New Blog

 So here I am in my 86th year & it is full of self reflection. I know that I am in the final section of my personal time line. And I have been making stuff like crazy. 

So Here's what Lisa Call wrote in her recent blog:

“Is there art if no one is seeing or receiving it?” 
~Keith Haring (Keith Haring Journals: Penguin Books , 2010)

An interesting question. What do you think?

This is a part of why I share my art.

It is what completes the process. 

It is what makes it art.

When it sits in the cabinet unseen it hasn’t quite reached its potential. 

When sparking a conversation or brightening up a room, I feel my artwork is contributing.

That got me thinking. "Daphne, you need to put your work out there & complete the process!" How far back should I go? Maybe the simplest would be to document in reverse order & stop when I feel I've done enough!

Conversation in 2 Colors 

I had never played with such transparent cloth before. The texture of it is very unpleasant, but this was such a new zone. 

The Very Eccentric 9-Patch 

Not really a 9-patch, more one gone wild.

Razzle & Dazzle

What is really obvious here is I am not doing themes in variation. I am exploring all over the place just to see what happens: pushing boundries, trying new things, & playing.

Lines: Registration, Product, & Sewing.

Every print job in more than one color on paper or on cloth there is a strip at the edge that shows the technician that the colors are going down correctly as intended. These are chopped off all magazine printwork, so you, the consumer, don't realize they were ever there. So I had cut off registration marks of one selvedge & the product information on the other on a number of fabrics available in my "stash".  And not your standard composition!

Grey Zone

Again, just play.

Pockets, Belt Loops, & Hems

This is what was left over from my "unseamly" blue jeans deconstruction project. Being a staunch waste-not-want-not New Englander I couldn't throw away the leftovers. I threw out the left-over-leftovers after I made this quilt. Which I think didn't turn out quite as dazzling as the first one. But I'm very fond of the pockets & rivet holes.

Zest for Life

This was finished after I got back from ABQ, NM, USA.

Razzle & Dazzle shares common cloth with this one.

Chord in Colors & Shapes

This is so typical of how I like to work. I set up a pattern & then make variations. I want the viewer's eye to move & dance & not have something easily discerned, as is possible with "traditional" quilts.

Cuts & Flaps

I made V-shaped cuts in the cloth & folded the flap back. 

This quilt harmonized so well with the one just before it,

Down-Dilly Windows

In this one I made X-cuts & folded the flaps back to create windows.

For George

So titled because George liked the quilt & I was dissatisfied  with how it turned out!

The next three are in a series with me playing around mainly with cloth I had bought a while back from Maiwa. The first was

Maiwa Thanks....where I'm playing a bit with showing the cloth from both sides. [It's subtle!]

.... then Maiwa Checkers....

...then Window to Elsewhere

Great Graters

This was so fun & quirky. I had collected some antique kitchen graters & I used them to make "rubbings" or, as the French call it, frottage.

The Wall of Tranquility II

This quilt was inspired by a sweet wall at the swimming pool in my condo. Inspiration first, quilt 2nd.

I would happily retry this idea with smaller blue centers next time!

And The Turqouise Quickie

And finally Triangle Replay

I was inspired to revisit traditional old triangle patterns-- an there are SO many. I wanted to mix it up a bit too.

That's it for now.

The Time Has Come.... re-re-re-edited-- new details & one quilt I forgot....

 "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 [sold]

2. 9 Transparent Circles (31 x 33)         $150.  [sold]

3. My Milagros   (57 x 36)        $200

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  [sold]

detail

9. Front Facing & Spirals  (24 x 33)      $200

10. Black & White Checkerboard    (28 x 40)      $300

11. Pied Checkers   (35 x 35)        $300. [sold]

 Images of the back

12. Fiji Hot & Humid  (29 x23)      $200. [sold]

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. [sold]

detail

17. Zest for Life  (26 x 33)      $300 [sold]

reverse

18. Shades of Grey   (28 x 30)        $250

19. ABQ, NM, USA  (18 x 28)      $150. 

20. Leftover Jean Pieces  (34 x43)        $300

21. Dream Lines ( 47 x 50 )  $300

22. Bali Cloth Blanket (48 x 40)  $300

(The upper left darker area is lighting issues, not a stain.)

reverse detail

23. Button Romance   (24 x 36)  $300

1400 Block South Granville Street    (24 x 36)   $200   

This is a history of the under-the-Granville-Street-Bridge Zone where Imagination Market had its first location. I made this piece before I moved into Yaletown, just a few blocks away.

details

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       $213 (random!)

details

We Are One    $200  [sold]

detail

Double, Double  $256, that would be 2 to the 8th power

or 256 minus 2 to the 6th power = $192.  

reverse

3 Points of Interest   $333... too much so suggest another idea?

reverse

My 4 Lenses for Looking at Numbers [in this case the #4, the mathematical lens. The others are scientific, linguistic, & cultural]

$244.  [sold]

detail (the mathematical lense)

The reverse created with 4 different patterns made by 4 different methods.

Knot, Pentagon, & Much More    

$161.80 + 16.18 + 1.61 + .16 + 1.= 179.85  

details

(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  $216 or 6 x 6 x 6 or "6 cubed"--perfect!

I think this term, hexomino, erupted 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 were from this new idea. This quilt is about one of the games. There are 6 faces to a cube.

details

reverse

My July 7 Birthdays  $196. That is 4 x (7 x 7) = 4x49.

detail

reverse

Symmetric Numbers.   $181$

detail

reverse    6 digit symmetric numbers

The Magic of Nine  $199.   

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.

detail

reverse

Fingers & Toes    $200  easy!! 20 fingers & toes x 10.

reverse

Stars with 11 Points    $242.   [sold]

(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.)

detail

reverse

Twelve Hour Clock      $240 

detail

reverse

4 x 13 Cards    (feminist's order)    $130

reverse

The Look of Numbers      $200.  [sold]

(The charm of the graphics of numbers, believe me it's a "thing"!)

reverse

What Grew from Mathematics      $200

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      $180, for 18 quilts

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.

Because this project was designed as a "book" both sides of each quilt were considered carefully. It meant there had to be a colophon & a page "about the author".

hence

Title Page.     $180

On the back I wrote with red thread "for all my children, biological, metaphorical & pedagogical".

That's it for now.