work table : collages
I hope everyone had a lovely holiday break! I spent several days over the last weeks developing ideas for 2025 in my sketchbook. I want to creatively experiment with a quilt design idea I’m developing based on EU street mapping. But I needed a flexible, interchangeable way of working to play around with the street maps. The streets themselves are wonky and clearly were built out of a necessity that is perhaps lost to history. I liked the idea of taking pieces and parts and rearranging them but I found the sketchbook too limiting, too staid. I found some old Yupo paper in my studio and finally managed to source Lefranc Bourgeois Flashe paint here in the NL. For some reason they won’t ship from France to here??
After painting the rectangles and tacking them up on my studio wall randomly with artist tape I decided to move the first piece downstairs to our living room so I could ponder it more frequently. Plus, as we can’t hang art yet in our rental, I was missing artwork on the walls.
I love how the fireplace wall in this house juts out and the asymmetry of the fireplace and wood storage. The piece became an interplay with these 3D punctuations and I wanted to push it further. Just like the solution to my foreclosure quilts involved flipping the backside to the front, I realized I could take this idea further by breaking it up and wrapping it around the wall, like the fireplace opening.
Now can I make a quilt that isn’t a rectangle? Or can I make objects pulled from these broken up designs? Back to the studio …