Giving an art quilt a title is often a challenge for me and this one was no different. I asked the guys here to tell me what they saw when they looked at it and for any title ideas. Each shared his thoughts and ideas and though it was fun to hear what the piece “said” to them, their ideas were nothing like what the piece meant to me. So after much deliberation (probably too much) I have dubbed this little piece “Drift”.
About the construction – It started as a painted whole cloth center with a bit of painted fusible, then using free motion quilting I stitched a “net” design and attached the piece on top of a black background. Next I cut up a old painted canvas that I had used under my hand painted fabric as a drop cloth (It was perfect!). I attached three pieces to the whole cloth using artist gel medium and continued the stitching across the canvas, this time using black thread.
I quilted in the border and added the painted gauze with more quilting and thread play. It is mounted to a black canvas that I cropped out of this photo because there was too much grey glare. I rarely mount art quilts on canvas but this was going to a exhibition where it was required (though I decided not to enter). To my surprise I like it on the canvas very much… trouble is I would like quilts to be recognized as art on their own and attaching them to a canvas just seems wrong. Have you ever mounted an art quilt to a canvas, if so tell us about it. I’ll write more about mounting small art quilts on canvas another time. For now I’m off to Quilt and Paint Away! A
