Our Role in Climate Control…
In researching, and all the while living daily life in the time of climate change, we Canadians continue to watch, learn about and take seriously the impact of changes in our climate, on our families and indeed the effect on the cities and throughout the beautiful vast lands that we
Ahead of His Time
My current series of work has been inspired by Antoni Gaudi. When thinking of the current prompt for Cloth in Common of Climate Change I started to research how Gaudi was a forerunner environmentalist and came across some interesting studies. Gaudi was extremely aware of the environment and used recycled
My grandmother
While working on this piece, I was able to think again about the life of my grandmother who passed away. I don”t know the details, but I think her life as a woman was much harder, more sacrificed and discriminated against. However, she didn’t surrender to it and continued to
Oma’s Farm – finished!
As promised, here is my finished piece for our prompt “Heritage”. To read the full story about my grandmother’s farm and the making of this quilt see the previous blogpost. I’m glad I didn’t rush the quilting part as I think it adds a lot to this piece. The detail
Green Roofs
Green roofs would be a structural change to help alleviate climate change.
disappearing – staying
(linen roasted, old books shredded and snippets sew together, free motion machine embroidery, photo transfer) Paul Cézanne once said: “You have to hurry if you want to see something, everything disappears…” He is addressing impermanence – much, almost everything, is impermanent. Our life is fleeting. But what remains is the
Layers
When looking at heritage as a prompt there were several options for me to consider from family, history, lineage to the loss of our historical buildings through our earthquakes. However as I looked at each it came to me that everything has layers of history past, present and future. Looking
STITCH – A Lifetime Ago
Six sisters, all quilters, and one small boy. My grandmother, a Kentucky farm wife, a master Kentucky quiltmaker, was one of the six and determined to teach the smallest quilter – her son, my Uncle Rufus who was born in 2018 with Down’s Syndrome never went to school. The family
Kailasa Temple
For the Heritage prompt, Deb chose to depict the Kailasa Temple, one of the 34 temples in the Ellora Cave complex.
Oma’s Farm
When we got the prompt “Heritage” I immediately thought about my Grandmother’s farm in Germany. This is where I grew up, in the Rhineland, a few kilometres from the border with the Netherlands. I have a lot of vivid memories about this place, about the farm as a building and
Rietveld Schröder House
During this prompt about heritage, I paid attention to Gerrit Rietveld. He lived from 1888 to 1964 and was an architect, furniture designer and graphic designer. In 1919 he designed the red/blue chair, a symbol of “De Stijl”. “De Stijl” is an art movement, named after the magazine of the
Atomic Bomb Dome In Hiroshima
The war my parents experienced was not so long ago. My father went across Asia as a soldier, and I heard my mother practiced with bamboo spear for the final battle. Until the atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese people believed that Japan would win the war. At that moment,