RECRYSTALLIZE
2023
40″ x 40″
All 100% Asian silks (origin Thailand, China, Japan, India and Nepal), polyester batting, nylon quilting thread, crazy machine piecing, all silks backed with polyester iron-on interfacing
Photo Credit: Adi Talwar
This quilt is an artistic rendering of recrystallization, the physical process of continuous rearrangement and reorganization at the molecular level, separating mixtures into their perfectly ordered components. At the bottom of the quilt, the unrefined materials are mixed in color and simple in shape and towards the top the colors and shapes are more and more refined.
The vibrancy of colors and hues found in silks, its reflective properties and the visual changes presented when the fabrics are cut at varying angles and seen under different lighting, makes silk as the material uniquely well suited to try to capture the evolving magic of crystalline formations.
