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Farewell to the Silver
Bird by Caryl Bryer Fallert
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In many of my quilts, birds have represented the ultimate feeling of freedom that I imagine birds must have as they are soaring across the sky.
In June of 1997, after 28 years as a flight attendant for United Airlines, I retired to pursue my career as a professional quilt artist. This quilt represents my taking leave of the corporation to fly solo in my own career. The silver bird, naturally represents the airline. The globe represents the areas where I flew professionally in my 28 year career: from Alaska to Venezuela and from Montreal to Hawaii. The red, orange, and blue stripes in the border are the logo stripes found an every United airplane. The bird flying away is made from the spectral colors of light that I often use in my quilts to represent life and energy.
The globe is quilted in the contour patterns of the earth that I saw every day as I was flying. The border is quilted in more organic and decorative patterns. Hidden in the quilting in the right, top and left borders are the words so-long, farewell, and good-bye. Surrounding the globe are a series of quilted airplanes. The first few are silver. As they fly from left to right they graduate to gold and finally to rainbow colors.
The back of the quilt is made from a commercial fabric in a pattern of clouds.
Spotlight, Press Publications Entertainment section, May 19-25, 2000 Cover, pp.2 & 6
