RESILIENCE
2023
40″ x 40″
Poly Crepe de Chine, photo collage, hand quilted
Photo Credit: Adi Talwar
This quilt combines my fascination with everything beautiful, resilient and unusual, whether created by nature, man-made or a combination of both, with the opportunities that modern technology offers to instantly capture and subsequently combine multiple images into one.
When on September 16, 2017, I took a photo of begonias growing out of a building wall three feet above ground in South Brooklyn, New York (where all 33 photos that eventually were combined into a collage were taken), I had no idea that it would be the first of many more and that it would ever become part of a quilt. As between 2017 and 2023 I took more photos of unusual and resilient living things – be it an iris blooming at the end of November, various blooming plants emerging out of tiniest cracks in asphalt or mushrooms growing outside of the lemon tree container – the idea appeared of combining these images into one. Thus, I worked on a photo collage, for which I intentionally did not alter a single image color and which was subsequently printed on fabric and hand quilted with various weight and color thread: some of the quilting lines follow the outline of the design, while the general quilting pattern consists of various interlocked geometric shapes deliberately drawn to enhance the color of images.
