Conversations with Rebecca - 58" x 31" 2008 $475
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Proustian Memory
Proustian Memory - 81" x 54" 2008 $5,750
The letters spell out, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes. Proust.”
This quote, from French writer Marcel Proust, is also quilted in English and French into the squares that are the spaces in between the words.
Si Se Puede
Si Se Puede - 20" x 20" 2008 $300
This art quilt reads: “Si Se Puede”, Spanish for “yes we can.”
“Si se puede” is the motto of the United Farm Workers. Cesar Chavez and UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta came up with the slogan in 1972, during Chavez’s 25 day fast in Phoenix, Arizona. This phrase has been widely adapted by other labor unions and civil rights organizations, including the 2006 U.S. Immigration reform protests which drew over one million people to a demonstration here in Los Angeles.
Materials: dupioni silks, cottons, cotton batting and backing.
Techniques: reverse applique, machine piecing, hand guided machine quilting.
Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem - 24" x 24" 2005 $700
The letters spell out "carpe diem," Latin for "seize the day."
This piece was included in Fabric Art Gallery. a book about art quilts published by Leisure Arts, a division of Time/Warner, 2005.
Exhibited at Best of SAQA Exhibition at the 2005 International Quilt Festival, at the 2006 Road to California Show in Ontario CA, and at the California Art Quilts Exhibit at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica, CA, 2006. Also exhibited at the Discovery Art Tour 2007, and is currently on view at the Acorn Gallery in Los Angeles.
