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I live in the Netherlands, which lies partly below sea level. The area I live in is situated in the middle of the country and is intersected by wide rivers. Every winter the river rises and large areas are flooded. High dikes protect the villages. The battle against the water
Night Falls Early at the Base of the Mountain
One nighttime image that came to mind is that of the clouds scuttling over the moon in its various phases and hues. And a particular night in South Africa when we stood beneath the night sky on a game preserve (no light pollution), and saw stars I’d never seen
Bliss Hill Road Nightfall
Bliss Hill Road Nightfall 30″ W X 40″ H ©Colleen Kole 2018 We have had a farm home on Bliss Hill Road for 15 years. What great road name for the road, right? I am sadly going to pack up our belongings and spend
The Soul of the Night
This quilt is the result of trying to visualize the crazy dreams that I sometimes have just before I wake up. You know the ones: you emerge from deep sleep, being not fully conscious but kind of aware of the ongoing dreams that play out in your head. The dreams
Night Shadows
I thought I was going to make a piece inspired by Patti Smiths ‘Because the Night’ but Patti (and Bruce Springsteen who wrote the song) were wrong. The night does not belong to lovers. It belongs to our deepest fears; the fears we cannot give voice to during the
When the lights come on and the stars come out…
“Night” is my theme, the one I had the pleasure of proposing to the group, so you might suppose that I would have had an idea of what I was going to make before I proposed the theme. I didn’t and I struggled to come up with a good idea.
Party Lights!
Party Lights I’ve never made a quilt about the night. I do love seeing the stars in a dark sky, but that’s usually in the early morning, when I’m going out to get the newspaper. Most of the time, when it’s night, I am safely inside! I became
Sleep Eludes Me
I spend a lot of the night staring at my digital clock so I created a Thermofax screen with the times that I see ranging from midnight through to dawn. I painted fabric with a rough gradation of black to a silvery white, printed the times and then cut it all up into
Nighttime – Dreamtime
Detail of “Lunar Eclipse”, 2009 During the night, we usually sleep, more or less well. I’m a fairly good sleeper, but often wake in the early morning hours, and then go back to a second sleep. That usually is the time when I dream in a way that
Night Falls Early
Night: a time of secrets, mystery and magic. But, for me it is a time to sleep. I’m a morning person, active during the day. Nighttime images that come to my mind are of lights warming burning inside a building, beckoning from the outside. Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks comes to mind,
Sleep Patterns
When the prompt of Night appeared I felt a sense of Deja Vu. Last year I made a quilt to enter into the SAQA Dusk to Dawn Exhibition and was thrilled when it was accepted. It is called ‘Another Long Night’ because I don’t sleep. I lie awake for hours