Lines and Welcomes
Karol Kusmaul I’m writing a few lines today about our group Cloth in Common and our current theme, Lines. This theme is wide open and there are a gazillion ways we could interpret it. I started by making a very long strip of bias binding so I could let it
Climate Change
It’s all around us. Drought. Floods. Hotter. Colder. It affects people, but it also affects trees, and trees make a difference. From the National Wildlife Federation’s web page: Trees are a truly beautiful part of the natural environment, but they are also amazingly efficient machines—constantly working to make Earth a
Doodling lines
Ah, lines! I love playing with lines in my abstract works. There is so much you can do with them as design elements, the possibilities are endless. A while ago, I filled up a small sketchbook with doodles of thin lines, with different markers and all black and white graphics.
Land engulfed in flames
The rising temperature of the earth causes climate change and is progressing to the point where it can no longer be ignored. Heavy rains, severe droughts, powerful typhoons and tornadoes, large-scale forest fires, and other types of disasters threaten human life. Among them, this work was inspired by massive forest
Lines Prompt
The next prompt for our group is “Lines”. It inspires lots of options when you are thinking about our overarching theme of “Structure. Immediately you think about lines on a road, telephone lines, building lines but what are some of the other options? I wonder if my fellow artists will
Red List
The red list is an officially established list of plants that are known as threatening in the Netherlands. Since 1950, nearly 500 of the 1536 native wild plant species in the Netherlands have declined in number. More than 40 species are already extinct. ( according to Wikipedia) A similar list
After the Storm
The prompt “Climate Change” could not have come at a more poignant moment for me. Just the weekend before, on September 24, post-tropical storm “Fiona” had devastated our region with hurricane-strength winds. In Atlantic Canada, there was torrential rainfall, winds up to 179 km/h, flooding, washed-out streets and houses, and
Climate Change + Structures = Green Roofs
The prompts Structure plus Climate Change inspired the idea of Green Roofs.
GATHERING STORM II
Our worldwide climate IS changing. Higher temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, extreme weather events, storms, and rising sea levels are just some of the changes already affecting many aspects of our lives. We take on what is left of hurricanes and are fast losing land, forests, too many homes, and our
Leave No Trace
The November prompt is Climate Change and my quilt is about Earth Day. The first Earth Day was in 1970 organized by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Congressman Pete McCloskey and activist Denis Hayes. Twenty million Americans participated in events that highlighted concern about the deteriorating environment. Earth Day led to the