seed words

these might one day be quilts - titles sometimes come before images

  • ...called by some chemistry of honey and musk -- A.S. Byatt : something yellow/brown
  • Warriors against oblivion - something with the metal pieces on grey
  • the push against the beyond begins -- Patiann Rogers
  • the avoidance of unreason
  • ways to say No with no ending
  • the ones who refuse to survive themselves
  • the complete infatuation of the final calculation of pi : concentric band circles a la the Kandinsky circles quilt
  • love goes in and out, friendship is forever
  • prisoner of the approval of my fans : paperpieced arcs? florals behind the barbed wire set? 
  • no void, just endless light : colours of light, delectable mountains setting against Prussian blue
  • migrating flamingos : 3D flying geese, a riot of pinks crossing the sky. Flag series.
  • A Wanderer in the Garden of Regrets : floral 4-patches in a streaky green. Flag Series
  • personality candy: a colourful sugar coating over a rich, dark bitter-sweet centre
  • the flower ocean (speaker meant to say 'a sea of flowers')
  • an exercise in liquid futility : offset flying geese up and down
  • Debating the Gift Of Consciousness : something with graduated fabrics
  • the brilliant love songs of my other religion -- Gerald Stern
  • Lethal yellowing
  • The Two Faces of the Miracle : a double self portrait - this is stitched waiting for quilting inspiration
  • Contention-free quadratic permutation polynomial turbo code internal interleaver made it into reality as a quilt of Abundance!
Thanks to Kate Bush, Aung San Su Kyi, Juha Saarinen, Anna G. Connell and other known and unknown folks for these words that bring images to my mind

1 comment:

Intuitive Textile Journeys said...

Love the phrase "Endless Light" and can vividly see the pink flamingos.