'Celebrating Home' 12" x 12" art quilt based on theme for quilt competition. Commercially printed fabric used as background. Photo transfer technique used to print sepia coloured photo on cotton lawn and attached to background fabric with fabric adhesive paper. Photo is framed with stencil to emulate 'burnt edges'. Earth is stencilled fabric on background and hand quilted in circular pattern.
Fabric was bleached underneath earth stencil to highlight the image. Quilt was free motion stitched in angular and wavy pattern and over painted with oil sticks in bronze, gold and turquoise. Turkish 'coins' were added for interest. The edges have been stencilled in black in an irregular pattern in keeping with the photo frame.
I wanted to portray the haunting vulnerable image of earth floating in space in contrast to the perception of home as a more personal image and a place of security and shelter.
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