Installation at Ginza Quilt-Eye Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, May, 1992

This series of three quilted panels is about luminescence, or light emerging from dark. Refraction refers to the bending of light as it passes through a prism or crystal. My use of fabrics dyed in both chromatic (color to color) and value (lightto dark) gradations, creates the illusion of luminescence. The construction of the panels was based on the traditional "log cabin" piecing technique. The panels are constructed around a hexagon rather than a square. The angling of each successive strip of fabric, resulted in the illusion of the bending or spiraling of the light areas. The strips of graduated fabric were sewn directly onto a base of batting to form large asymmetrical hexagons. These were turned until they had a pleasing visual interaction and then trimmed to form three rectangles of exactly the same size.

This triptych is composed of three separate panels, which are meant to hand 1" - 2" apart. Each panel is slightly different in color and composition, and is meant to interact visually with the design of the adjacent panel.