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Dancing with the Shadow #1:Harmony
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- Copyright © 1995 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 61" x 93"
- Techniques: hand dyed, hand painted,
machine pieced, appliqued and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting:
80% cotton / 20% polyester
- Private Collection: St. Petersburg, FL
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Design
Concept
This
is one of a series of quilts about dance. To me, dance
symbolizes the energy of life and a sense of creative
freedom. The shadow represents the unconscious, from
which are drawn images of the past to create new images
in visual art. Although the silhouettes were taken
from real dancers, this piece is not so much about
the dance itself as about the harmony and beauty that
can emerge when we combine our positive energies in
a creative way. Each dancer appears to be translucent,
and the areas where they overlap become secondary
shapes.
The fabric for the dancer is finely woven cotton broadcloth,
which was painted with fiber reactive dyes in a technique
that is very much like water color painting. The background
fabric is cotton sheeting, which was manipulated into
folds and painted with dyes. After being painted,
it was overdyed with black to provide a darker background
for the dancers.
The silhouettes of the dancers were traced, then scanned
into the computer. I used a computer assisted drawing
program to manipulate, arrange and color them in the
computer to arrive at the final arrangement. The shadow
echoes the shapes of the dancers.
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The composition
was printed onto clear acetate, and projected onto
a sheet of Wonder Under (fusible web bonded to paper)
The silhouette of each dancer and each shadow was
drawn, cut out, and fused to cotton fabric. Each piece
was carefully cut out with embroidery scissors and
fused to a background of darker, dye painted fabric.
The fabrics used for the background and the dancers
were manipulated while wet. Liquid dyes were poured
over them and allowed to flow together in a technique
similar to watercolor painting. The shadow was cut
from solid black fabric.
A strong border seemed to be needed to contain the
energy of the dancers. The border design began with
a traditional "Crown of Thorns" block. This
was manipulated on the computer screen in many different
ways, until I found one that I thought best complimented
the dancers. The individual blocks were printed out
on a laser printer to form templates for the individual
pieces.
The geometric outline quilting of the outer border
is offset by freeform, free motion quilting of the
center in designs that roughly echo the patterns of
the liquid dye as it flowed together in the painting
of the dancers and the background fabric.
Exhibitions:
- PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL QUILT EXTRAVANGA, (juried),
1995, Philadelphia, PA (SECOND PLACE)
- AMERICAN / INTERNATIONAL QUILT ASSOCIATION SHOW,
1995, Houston TX (HONORABLE MENTION & JUDGES CHOICE)
- SPECTRUM: THE TEXTILE ART OF CARYL BRYER FALLERT,
Traveling Solo Exhibition, 1996-1998 Museum of the
American Quilters Society, Paducah, KY, Illinois State
Museum, Springfield, IL, American Museum of Quilts
and Textiles, San Jose, CA, Dunedin Fine Art Center,
Dunedin FL, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
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Publications:
- MASTERS ART QUILTS: Lark Books, 2008, p. 224\
- QUILTERS NEWSLETTER MAGAZINE, Leman Publications,
March, 1996 p. 50
- THE QUILTING QUARTERLY, (National Quilting Assoc.
Inc.) Spring, 1996, COVER & pp 19 & 22
- CARYL BRYER FALLERT: A SPECTRUM OF QUILTS, 1996,
AQS Books, pp 96, 97, 98, 99
- THE STATE JOURNAL REGISTER, Springfield, IL Sunday,
January 5, 1997, pp. 1, 4
- THE ST.PETERSBURG TIMES, St.Petersburg, Fl. Wednesday,
July 16, 1997, Section B. p. 1
- THE SUN, Lowell, MA, Sunday Nov. 9 1997, p. B 1
- QUILT WORLD, January, 1998, p 25
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