Ground Quilt, relief and silk screen on Kozo paper sewn, 2022During the first semester of my graduate program, I had explored working with quitting techniques. I had made a ground quilt piece. I had taken photographs of the ground in an untouched area. In some way the fauna and flora that wraps around an irregular territory acts a blanket in itself. Working with imagery of a capricious pattern that is untouched by human beings I imposed a human made quilting pattern that I often see in my family’s quilts, the diamond drop quilt pattern, a highly geometric pattern. This pattern would unlikely never appear naturally. Permeating a relationship with an unscathed moment captured and altered into a recognizable object.
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The project brought back to where the source images were taken.