The prompt of Lines originally had me going off in another direction but then I travelled down our West Coast just after Christmas at stopped at the Pan Cake Rocks at Punakaiki. They are spectacular!

The Pan Cake Rocks are limestone formations that began forming 30 million years ago when lime-rich fragments of dead marine creatures were deposited on the seabed. These were later overlaid by layers of soft mud and clay. Earthquakes raised them from the seabed to the level we see today.

These are amazing to stand a look at as you see all sorts of patterns forming and as the waves come in the blow holes activate. You can see the different lines stacked on top of each other with the ever changing colours of the rocks.

My interpretation is using my fabrics to form the rocks layer upon layer with the sea fabric full of bubbles as the waves crash into the rocks on a daily basis. The quilting is of waves turning over time and time again.

In this detail photo it highlights the use of painted fabrics, roasted fabrics and stenciled fabrics with the point of the wave. The full shot above effective reflects the erosion of the sea over time and the rocks getting smaller and smaller however there are more coming through at the edge as the seas uncovers these as well.

Our Department of Conservation has done an outstanding job of putting a walking track with bridges in and around the rocks so that you can get full effect. The first photo is one I took from an over bridge across the edge of the rocks.

Machine pieced and Quilted. Hand dyed and painted/stenciled fabrics, Roasted fabrics.

39in x 23in