Sound Waves
As soon as the prompt of Sound was announced my mind went to sound waves. I love the repeat patterns and lines created by the variations and wanted to replicate them in fabric. My work is a graphic representation of multiple waves all overlapping and probably
The song of a summer morning
It has been a hot summer and we don’t have air conditioning, so we open our windows as wide as possible at night to catch a cool breeze if we can. The first sound I hear early in the morning is the sh-sh-sh of the sprinklers coming to life in
Visible Speech
What must it be like not to be able to hear any sounds, to be deaf? You can still make sounds with your speech apparatus, but you can’t hear yourself. This piece is a homage to Alexander Melville Bell’s phonetic alphabet that he devised in 1867 to help deaf
Cacophony (The Dancing Caterpillar)
Cacophony – defined as a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. Synonyms: din, racket, noise, discord, dissonance, discordance, caterwauling, raucousness, screeching, jarring, stridency, grating, rasping. How do words sound? How do they make you feel? Do we each respond to individual words in the same way? For me
Sounds of Norway
Hi, I am Synnøve from Norway, and I am very happy to be part of this fine group of quilters. When I read the first topic: Sound, I thought of the sound waves, and went to my old Physics Book Sound waves from my physics book from 1964.
Making the sound connection
First off—Hi! I’m Terry and I’m so happy to be here, in great company and working on an intriguing challenge. It’s my first post on the blog and I”m getting to know my fellow artists of Cloth in Common! Visualizing sound. So we begin with our first challenge. Hmmm. This
Sounds of rain
When Karol asked “How will you represent sound visually?”, At the moment I thought of rain. Personally, I like sound when it rains. The sound of rain that was falling to soft and light makes me comfortable and stable. And the ripples created by the rain falling on the ground
Making speech visible
When I first read Karol’s prompt, images of sound waves came to mind right away. With a physicist husband and a very musical family this would have been my first choice for visualizing sound. But then I visited the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada,
Thinking Thinking Thinking
When I first read our prompt my immediate reaction was Sound Waves. I usually go with the first thought and as I love pattern and repetition I did an image search on them. Image searches are a wonderful way to get an instant library of images to get your mind
Here we are – ready to get started!
Three days until our first prompt. This is a snapshot of a photo I saw last spring in the home of Pierre du Pont at Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia. I thought it fit our title, Cloth in Common, very nicely. If you are interested in meeting our group, and
Getting close to start time!
Be still, my heart!!!!! Our website is growing, our membership represents five states and seven countries!!!!! We have decided on sizes for our work and an overall theme of Unusual Inspirations for our first round (22 months) of fiber art. We have calendars and assignments, and a start date of
Plein Air Art Quilts? Why not?
By way of introducing myself, I will share a recent experience. I have many painter friends, as I am active in the local art world as well as the community of Art Quilters. So when Plein Air West Reading (Pennsylvania) loosened its rules this year, I decided to take