Something is Broken
Disunity. There’s something to ponder! When the theme was announced my internal response went directly to the current state of things here in the U.S. Our president, his policies, his actions and words and the resulting changes in our lives has me in constant horror, anger, grief and disgust. “Disunity”
The Great Divide
When I wrote about our theme Disunity a few weeks ago I had written about a chasm between factions in societies that could not be crossed easily anymore. This picture somehow nestled itself into my head and wouldn’t let go. So I decided to make just that, a wide chasm,
Gender Mending.
With all the disunity in the political scene, my own life seems peaceful, calm and orderly. However I do have an ongoing discussion with my husband regarding transgender issues. I am not preoccupied with details of birth certificates and genes. I feel all the thorny social questions that surround
Broken Circles
The world is a sad place at the moment. There are few countries who are not suffering either politically or environmentally. The prompt of Disunity raised quite a few ideas in my head but one of the recurring themes which lasted related to circles. Circles are a symbol
NONSENSE
Our theme this time is DISUNITY. I decided to merge several ‘orphan’ blocks from my years of teaching traditional piecing classes. The colors clashed. The patterns were varied – bowtie, Christmas, floral, repro, modern. I wanted to make a statement about accepting diversity. Each section is quilted with
Disunity Of The Earth
It has been getting terribly heat lately in Japanese summer. And cherry blossoms bloom in April every year, but this year it ended in March. I’m worry about the global warming. There are big problems in the world such as Religion, Race, Politics, Gender, Gun, and Family…. People always
Wormhole
According to Scientific America, “Wormholes are solutions to the Einstein field equations for gravity that act as “tunnels,” connecting points in space-time in such a way that the trip between the points through the wormhole could take much less time than the trip through normal space.” I didn’t start out thinking
Disunion
Japanese people know about “Halloween”from the recent past. An unforgettable shooting incident happened in October 1992,in Louisiana, USA. A Japanese overseas student named “Hattori “entered a Halloween decorated house, mistaking it for his friend house. The owner drew on him in the dark and said, “Freeze” The Japanese
Time flows.
When Colleen suggested prompt”Time”, at that time I intended to make the piece with idea that “time” had “some form”. In the end, however, I thought that ” Time is a constant flow without stopping”, and decide to express it in my piece. I think sometimes it seems like time
Time Machine
We can’t see the time. It goes on forever. It would be a nice dream if we could control time like we see in“ Back to the future”. My favorite movie is “Time Machine” that has a glittering sphere that goes back and forth through time. This concept