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
Coral Bleaching
Global warming is spreading not only to the land where we live, but also to the world of the sea. There are beautiful coral reefs in the tropical sea. Did you know that they are now gradually turning into skeletons and dying out? All of are due to environmental stress
Structures for Climate Change
The climate change prompt was a hard one for me. I finally settled on depicting trees and Lewis structures. Lewis structures are diagrams that show the bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs of electrons that may exist in the molecule. The Lewis structure was
A matter of survival
For the past 100 years, the Earth has been warming faster than ever in history. The average temperature at the Earth’s surface has risen about 1.1℃ since 1850.The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melting rapidly. The number of weather-related disasters has increased by a factor of five over 50 years.
Earth Day Every Day
The prompt for our November reveal quilts is Climate Change. Elfriede encourages us all to become aware of structural changes needed to get to a better world. This is one of the most difficult prompts! I’ve dithered and dithered. What I can say is that, for me, every day is