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In Hobart Tasmania (AUS) we visited the Museum of Old & New Art (MONA), a truly weird and wonderful experience. It’s too much to explain in an artist’s statement, but you can read all about it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art. |
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The museum is built, three stories down, into sandstone cliffs. |
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It is full of some of the strangest things we have ever seen |
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Many of the spaces in the museum are designed to be disorienting. Here are a couple of examples. |
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From the top floor of the museum, we looked down three levels and saw people standing in line. |
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They were waiting to walk, one at a time, into a space that was even more disorientating. |
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I loved the whole geometry of this view and decided to use this photo in a quilt design. |
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Like most photos is had lots of clutter I did not want to include in my quilt. Feet, a textured floor mat, rivets in the sheet metal, etc. |
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There was also stuff you could see through windows at the bottom. |
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I did like the juxtaposition of that big round light against all the straight geometry of the walls. So I copied it and decided to try it somewhere else. |
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In Corel Draw, I rotated my photograph and made it square. |
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In Corel Photo-Paint, I painted out all of the things I didn’t want in the design and all the things I didn’t want to quilt around. |
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Then I added the round light fixture back into the picture. It didn't look exactly right so I played around with it some more. |
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After playing around with it for a while, the light fixture became a series of floating spheres in graduated sizes. I liked what I had so far, but it seemed to need a little spice. |
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So I added one bright red square, unapologetically relating to nothing else, just like much of the art in the museum. |
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I designed matching binding strips and places everything in a rectangle 42” wide and two years long. 42” is the maximum width that can be printed on Spoonflower’s quilting quality cotton fabric.
The fabric is about 45” wide, so you will have a little extra white fabric outside the printed area. I leave borders at the top and bottom so I have something to hang onto while I’m doing free-motion quilting. |
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I export the whole thing as a bitmap at 150 dip, which is the resolution Spoonflower recommends. |
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I uploaded the image to Spoonflower and had it printed on two yards of their default petal signature cotton fabric. You can’t buy partial yards. |
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Here is the finished quilt. When I got the fabric, I realized that the outline quilting needed to be very precise, even in areas of the photograph that faded to black, so I got out long rulers and tried to remember the lessons on perspective that I learned in my college art classes. I marked the ambiguous lines with a white Sewline erasable quilt marker |
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In areas where I wanted to while lines to show up clearly, I use heavy #30 top stitching thread. In the other areas I used #40 thread. I used at lease a dozen different shades of grey and beige thread in the quilting. |
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Here’s another look at the whole quilt. |
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