02/23/2025
Titled "REMNANTS"
This piece started with some strips that had been trimmed from two other smaller art quilts. I liked the colours and the pieces made me think of ice.
A book I have recently read by Robert MacFarlane (“Underland, A Deep Time Journey”) had me transfixed as his group witnessed the cracking and calving of the Knud Rasmussen glacier in Greenland. This exploration of deep time and deep places ventures into the big questions of our time; man's place in the environment. (I highly recommend all his writing).
And so my Ice Sentinels were born. They might be seen to guard the last of the glaciers, but they can also be seen as 'Remnants' of their millions of years as a glacier. I hope they guard Greenland for a long time to come.
I cut the strips into chunks, played with layout, and found some hand dyes that matched the northern lights and the deep sea. I zigzagged around the edges, stitched them in place and added a scrap of lace splash as one of the sentinels falls into the sea. Another berg floats free.
I ran into some difficulty while trying to quilt this piece. The layers were too thick and my machine was skipping stitches like crazy, There was no other choice but to hand quilt and I'm happy I did. (Fingers not so much happy).
Terry P
