my finished quilt for my undergraduate thesis show! my art practice lately has been spending time with small things the average person doesn’t notice or know about. this quilt is entirely hand printed and hand stitched. show label below:
Little Glass Houses, 2023
Hand-dyed and unbleached muslin, cotton batting, mercerized cotton thread and block printing ink
Diatoms are a prolific single-celled microorganism, found in water and soil across the planet. This quilt “magnifies” them for the human eye in a composition that mirrors the view of a slide under the microscope. The cell walls of diatoms are likened to glass, as they are made up of a thin layer of transparent silica. Replaced by soft cotton and thread, this quilt gives them a dimensional quality that is lost under a microscope.
