The latest , very new quilt in the Ebb & Flow series, #14, I made specifically for a spot beside the dining table in our own home here in Montevideo. For several years ‘Desert Wind’ (1995) had been grabbing visitors’ attention as they came in the door, but I decided I’d like to live for a while with something of my recent work in this series, which I love, and so I made a piece to go in this particular place. I DID plan to get it finished before Christmas, but, well other things got in the way. The whole room looks and feels very different, and although I have always said I don’t want to live amidst a gallery of my own works, I am happy to spend some peaceful time with this one. I may exhibit it here, but don’t have any plan other than to have it up on our wall, which is why I am not sticking to my usual rule of never showing a new piece until it has been seen in a juried exhibition somewhere. And, of course I would part with it if someone wants to pay the price I have on it.
March 29th Thanks to my wonderful photographer here, Eduardo Baldizan, I now have a much more professional and colour-accurate image of this quilt. Ooooops! it turned out huge – still, enjoy this while you can – I may come back later and downsize it . Now that it has been up for a few weeks it is making me think , and some of your comments are thought provoking, too. A gallery owner here wants some smaller works …and the Maelstrom quilt is also making me think about a few things … but a bit of procrastination shortly as we hurtle off to the sunday markets along Tristan Navaja which we haven’t done in a while.
English
This is a very zen piece. Enjoy.
Very nice, Allison! I sure would like to see a bigger picture of the overall quilt. Is this the same one you were working n awhile back and showed in progress?
Beautiful Alison – and serene.
Jenny
I love this piece Allison! Your work is so amazing to me. I love all of it. This one is very soothing and peaceful. I hope to see some of your work in person some day.
Thankyou all for leaving such positive comments.
Yes, Norma, this is the work I showed in progress, posted on November 23rd last. As I said, I had an end of year deadline in mind. Just now I went back to that post an re-read it, and I think I achieved all that I had in mind then, all except the glitter I was considering. I have a fondness/weakness for it. I have heaps of gold thread, but it looked to brassy; the silver, also heaps, looked cold and wrong. Copper wasn’t right and anyway, the quantity made me a bit nervous, and an odd pewter which I only had in a small quantity looked great. No hope of getting similar here, though, so I finally went with the toning cream thread for quilting, and it works well, perhaps better than glitter would have, really.
Alison, this is so restful,so… almost spiritual…I have been sitting here just looking and enjoying it. Thank you for inviting us to look at it.
It is lovely and I am sure all who see it will praise your artistic ability.
A piece you will enjoy for a long time, I am sure.
Carole
I like the spareness of this piece, and the near-white background, the simplicity, and the popping of the colors.
This is a wonderful piece.