A Bridge Too Far
For this piece I have taken a work I made in 2018 and updated it in two ways. I have added length as it was too short and I always thought it was out of balance! I’m much happier with it now as I feel that the soldier balances the
Ancient Ingenuity
A fascination for bridges has been with me for a long time. Almost any big city in Europe, sitting along the banks of a river affords a view over a series of bridges. What a glorious stage of millennials of engineering. The symmetry, the rhythm and interplay of light and
Four Bridges
Building Bridges seemed like such a gift as a prompt. Settling on the quilt design was easy as I picked the first option (of many) that occurred to me. Writing the commentary to describe the meaning was far more difficult. I have been watching what everyone else has posted and
The Bridge of Thoughts and Prayers
There is a gap between ritual words and real actions in the wake of school shootings and gun violence. The first school shooting recorded was in the 1600’s and they have not stopped but increased dramatically over history. When the Thoughts and Prayers response began is difficult to determine but
Building Bridges
There are many types of bridges from all over the world. Some are huge and span miles while others simple offer a step onto another path. Sometimes these bridges fall apart. The cause can be age, poor structure, weak materials and sometimes just bad weather and even war! It does
Books Building Bridges
A bridge is a physical structure that connects two distant places, yet metaphorically it serves as a mediator linking abstract relationships. In much the same way, I believe that ‘books’ can play the role of connectors with remarkable power. Books join the past with the present, bringing together different cultures,
Railway bridge and fireworks
In my hometown, fireworks go up to the summer night sky once a year. From my house, I could see fireworks over the iron bridge that goes over the river every year. In my memory, fireworks and iron bridges are always together. The road connects the town to the city,
Underground Networks
Underground Networks, 5-2 Martha Ressler It turns out that trees can communicate with each other through Mycorrhizal networks, mycelium, a fungal network of tiny roots whereby fungi provide additional nutrients to the tree roots, and the trees in turn provide the fungi with sugars produced through their photosynthesis. The mycelium
Building Bridges
For a long time sexton has been a love for islands. I am fascinated how people lived on an island. If the world around you does not yet exist, you have to live with the materials that are available on the island. During my visits to different islands, I discovered
Spanning Time and Distance
In 1977 my husband Jim and I lived in Tampa, Florida. That was the year that two of Jim’s hometown friends from Illinois moved to Tampa. Jim introduced one of them, Bobby, to a friend of a teacher friend, Betty. Bob and Betty fell in love, moved to Oregon in
“Quiet Force of Nature”
The Piece that I have made for this prompt is entirely different from my original idea I returned to the idea of how in nature creatures, animals, plants, trees, mushrooms etc. -all build bridges often unseen by humans I thought how Gardens quickly become overgrown when left untended I thought
Bridging the Rub’ al Khali
The Rub’ al Khali—popularly known as the Empty Quarter—is the world’s largest uninterrupted sea of sand, sweeping across the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, and the Republic of Yemen. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers, this awe-inspiring wilderness is a realm of towering dunes,