Structures #49
Structures #49 - Detail ©2007
I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve been too busy in my studio finishing up work. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for having all of my Structures quilts that are in progress completed and I want to get them DONE!
I finished Structures #65 on Saturday and just finished Structures #49 tonight.
I was going to take a bunch of photos of #49 and talk about what I was exploring with this quilt but my camera battery died after taking the above shot.
First thing to note about this quilt is somehow it’s changed names in the past year and half. I suppose it was supposed to be #50 but it’s got a label on it now that says #49 so 49 it is.
I first wrote about this quilt in this post about reworking my quilt.
If you go read that post you will see that I made some big changes to the quilt in November 2005.
It went from this:
To this:
Now I’m looking at this and wondering just what the heck I was thinking. I think the original looks better. The final colors are really rather blah - nothing is going on - it’s very obvious and simple. At least the original piece had some spice to it.
The final quilt actually looks a bit different than what is shown here but it’s very similar. When my batteries are recharged I’ll take another photo of it.
This quilt is done, and it’s not bad. But there is a reason I put off finishing it for so long. Yawn.
I now have only 2 Structures quilts left to finish. I’m working on #50 right now (it used to be Structures #49 in this post). In 12-16 hours it will be finished and then all that is left is Structures #48, which is still not sewn together. Some photos of it in progress are in this post. I’ve done a bit more work from this last photo but not much.
Posted by Lisa in: Abstract Contemporary Textile Art, Making Abstract Contemporary Textile Art
Olga said,
February 22, 2007 @ 4:21 am
Very interesting though the colour differences are - isn’t it just fascinating what happens when neighbours are changed - I find even more intriguing the wide open spaces in this design. I went back to your website to look for more examples of large unmediated areas of colour, and apart from perhaps Structures #41 I didn’t see another. Somehow this feels like a different kind of statement to me - and I’m not sure yet how I’m reacting to it.
Lisa Call said,
February 22, 2007 @ 8:32 am
Yes Olga, these pieces (#50 that I’m quilting right now also) were very different with the large open spaces. I want to get back to that and as I’ve been quilting these I’ve been thinking of some new ideas to explore along those lines.
janina said,
March 7, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
Lisa, I think maybe you ought to have a look at some very good Aboriginal art. I think you will see that your quilts, of the Structures series I have seen so far, have similar elements to them. The quilt as the final, I presume (the top image in this post), to me could be seen as a brown field lying fallow with ghost-like images of people of the soil in it (people of the land). The yellow strip on the left could be a field of canola, with the green bits on top as a small forest of some kind that acts as a windbreak to that field. These are primitive, but essential, stories that you are telling in your quilts. Are you an Aborigine, by any chance? I think you are well-attuned to that intuitive aspect that defines Aboriginal art, and you ought not to be so hard on yourself! Cheers!