This unveiling is so exciting! Maybe we should move to every two months, now that we're getting the hang of it?
When I started to think about my quilt the Red Shirts were barricading themselves in Bangkok. And trouble was brewing. Red is my favourite colour - I think of it as a cheerful thing, lively, energetic, and full of promise. But throughout our modern history it is a colour that is associated with violence, evil, and oppression. Which got my goat a bit.
I've used my fabric that I made during a Rayna Gillman workshop on gelatin plate printing, and the red is my own dyed fabric. I've embroidered a variety of names such as red shirts, red brigade, khmer rouge, red guard, seeing red, red square, and then racking my brain for the last: rackham le rouge. A little humour never hurts.
Oh wow-ee! Powerful stuff - and very appropriate. Great to be able to use fabric made in a workshop as so often it lies unloved in a drawer. Perfect opportunity.
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excellent choice of both fabrics. well combined. the writing is well placed. well done dianne - a meaningful piece
ReplyDeleteNo, no no to every two months! Love the quilt tho', Diane. M
ReplyDeleteYour fabric gave me the feeling of chaos and blood of conflict. Your words totally conveyed the piece with an "up" flourish. Clever!
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