No, this is not me getting a bit kinky, it means more that I am discovering ways to incorporate leather into my textile creations, and thinking about its potential.

Forced to make some kind of statement to accompany my quilt “Ora Banda” into the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum collection, I alluded to the great underlying building block of traditional american patchwork, the repeated block or unit. Although I made very few traditional quilts before experimenting in the non-traditional field, something continues to draw me to repetition and block formation. My earliest quilts were the “Ancient Expressions”, I-XIV, which included a lot of repeat patterning drawn from ancient and tribal carvings in and on various materials, rocks and cave walls, and some of the petroglyhic and petrographic renditions of figures of man, animals and essential basic symbols which occur in civilisations world-wide. And of course there are some here, in Uruguay. One of the great artists of this country, Jose Gurvich, sprinkles them with others from his own personal lexicon, throughout his drawings, ceramics and murals. I just love finding something that he has used that is similar to a mark made by a cave dweller in europe, or to one that I know has been marked on a wall in an Outback Australian ravine.