The Whisper Project Group B

 The project description is here

This was our original photo inspiration

First Participant - Kathleen P. Decker
Bridges

Artist Statement: As the first to translate from photo to quilt in this project, I felt it was important to stay fairly close to the original, so I tried to incorporate almost all the elements of the original photo. However, I rebelled at the end, and omitted a couple of small garden bits with cheerful flowers. I had worked very hard on several bridges, walls, and the background scenery, and footprints. When it came to producing the tiny flowers in the left-hand garden beds, I left them out. I did pay tribute to the flowers under the bridge, but didn’t worry about catching the red blooms. It was fun deciding how to make footprints.

Techniques: photo printed on fabric, thread painting, machine appliqué, free-motion quilting on a domestic machine.

Second Participant - Andrea Tsang Jackson

Float

Artist Statement: “Float” picks up on the "bridge" shape in the previous work, using echoing bias scraps to form a multi-toned sky. Its looseness is ordered through small rectangular sections -- orienting the freeform piecing towards the ground.

Third Participant - Sonja Boon

Mirror

 

Artist Statement: Sometimes, when the light is just right and the air is still, you can see the whole sky reflected in a single puddle. Water reflecting light reflecting water, each mirrors the other and in these moments, it seems almost as if you can look into the heart of the universe itself. This piece considers the point where sky and water meet, where light encounters the depths, and the depths respond. 

Media: cotton, recycled linen, and cyanotype and mono-printed recycled fabric. 

Techniques: machine pieced and stitched

Fourth Participant - Laureen van Lierop

Broken Moonbeams

Artist Statement: The very strong diagonals and the cream colours in the image I received inspired this piece. 

Materials: linen dresser-top runner, lace, handmade lace, water colours, cotton threads, button, found wires, cotton scraps, painted tissue paper.