Modern Quilt Perspectives (the quilts)…

We all know that I love words, and few more than the thousands of words that went into the book. I worked at them and reworked them, labored over them, swore at them, erased them, and eventually loved them. But there are also the quilts, and I love them every bit as much…

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This was an interesting project for me: for about half the quilts I made the quilts and wrote the words to explain them, but for the other half the process was just the reverse — the words existed before I had a clue as to what I was going to make.

In a many ways that is one of the essential points of this book, working is a complicated practices, one in which all sides inform the others. And there are many ways to work on ideas; quilting will forever be more than just a visual form. It is rife with the symbolic, and more than anything this book of quilts is an investigation of the role of the symbolic at this moment…

But let it never be said that I am a cold person; I love pretty things as much as the next, and I hope you will forgive me if I say there is a whole lot of pretty in here…

-t

PS: Three more days until the official launch!!!

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