Orange Marmalade"
48"w x 48"h x 1" © 2004 Available
Will be in "Art Concentrated"
Academy of Music, Spotswood, NJ
January 7-March 31, 2007
TJ: Orange Marmalade detail
Materials: cottons, polyesters, tulles, ribbons, plastic mesh, computer wires, paper, buttons, beads, sequins, recycled computer and electronic components, found objects including duck sauce, cap gun 8 shot disc, painted feathers, orange juice carton, and paper clips.
Techniques: foundation paper piecing, machine and hand embroidery, embellishment, off-loom weaving.
Grape Jelly"
24"x24"x1" © 2004 Available
Cranberry Orange Jelly"
29"x29" © 2004 Available
V1.3: Cranberry Orange Jelly is created from Gail Kessler’s collection of Jelly fabrics produced by Andover Fabrics debuted at Spring Market 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA.
Even though the shapes of V1.3 are circular, I still consider it to be a Crazy Quilt design. The individual strips of the stripped-pieced sections where cut in random widths, pieced together randomly, cut on random angles and then foundation pieced in random combinations.
The circles and half-circles represent a sliced open orange. The "C" shaped objects can be interpreted as as 'cranberry' or 'crazy'.
Mixed Berry Jelly"
10cm x 12.5cm © 2004 Sold
Permanent Collection of the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
It is foundation pieced on 3.9"x4.9" card stock.
Materials: cottons, paper, beads, sequins, recycled computer components, found objects.
Techniques: foundation paper piecing, machine quilting, embellishment.
Watermelon Jelly"
25"w x 45"h x 1"d © 2005 Available
Materials: cottons, tulles, ribbons,
computer wires, buttons, beads, recycled computer
and electronic components.
Techniques: hand foundation piecing, hand quilting, hand embroidery and
embellishment.
Statement: The “Techno Jam” series is based on the
Victorian crazy quilt design, but in monochromatic color ranges. The theme
is about computers and electronics getting ‘jammed up’ and
how marmalades, jellies, and preserves can be sticky and messy.
Many of the quilt blocks have transparent sections with no quilt backing
behind them. There are butterflies, dragonflies, and ‘computer
bugs’ buzzing around to pollinate the flowers of the fruit.
There are spiders weaving their webs out of computer wire.
Now that mankind can ‘grow’ computer chips in the lab, where
does nature end and technology begin?
Cranberry Orange Lime Jelly"
~47"h x ~27"w x 1"d © 2005 Sold
work-in-progress
Materials: cottons, ribbons,
buttons, beads, recycled computer
and electronic components.
Techniques: hand foundation piecing, hand quilting, hand embroidery and
embellishment.
Statement: The “Techno Jam” series is based on the
Victorian crazy quilt design, but in limited color ranges. The theme
is about computers and electronics getting ‘jammed up’ and
how marmalades, jellies, and preserves can be sticky and messy.
There are butterflies, dragonflies, and ‘computer
bugs’ buzzing around to pollinate the flowers of the fruit.
There are spiders weaving their webs out of computer wire.
Now that mankind can ‘grow’ computer chips in the lab, where
does nature end and technology begin?