Made in New Mexico: Structural Diversity (SAQA Regional Exhibition)

Studio Art Quilt Associates of New Mexico Presents

MADE IN NEW MEX CO: STRUCTURAL DIVERSIT

An exhibit of contemporary fiber a t presented at: Capitol Rotunda Gallery, Santa Fe, NM April 14, 2017 - August 17, 2017 Capitol Art Collection, Capitol Art Foundation, State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico; East Rotunda Gallery, Capitol Art Foundation, State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Cynthia Sanchez, Ph.D., Director, Capitol Art Foundation/Curator, Capitol Art Collection.

Curated and organizerd by Betty Busby Catalog by Shannon Conley Studio Art Quilt Associates is a professional organization promoting fiber arts and fiber artists throughout the world. For this exhibit, artists from the SAQA: NM revgion were invited to submit representational or abstract pieces based on the themes of structure and structural diversity. Structures exist in an infinite number of forms- human and animal homes, biological and mineral formations, down to the very arrangement of atoms that hold the universe together. For more information visit saqa.com

Holly Altman, Santa Fe, NM oaxacamamma@altmanpr.com Ocean Scaffolding - Bones of the Deep

Ann Anastasio, Santa Fe, NM aanastasio@comcast.net Cathedral Plan Architecture has always fascinated me. When this piece began taking shape, I realized that it looked like a drawing of a cathedral from the highest point - perhaps the dome.

Nora Bebee, Albuquerque, NM saltcreekarts@yahoo.com The Hillside This quilt represents the interplay of lines (roots) and circles (stones).

Together they provide movement to the eye by following the curves of nature: some finding a resting place in crevasses, others working towards another destination. By working together visually and in nature, the hillside provides not only pause, but appreciation of the environment.

Nora Bebee, Albuquerque, NM saltcreekarts@yahoo.com The Ridge As trunks and limbs reach for the sky, roots and stones work to hold onto their place in the earth. This piece denotes the practical and visual use of vertical and horizontal lines in the form of nature.

Jeri Beitel, Santa Fe, NM colorway@hotmail.com De-Construction Designed by me this abstract piece is interpreted as a tall structure being disassembled. The left side showing the whole structure and the right side shown as if it is taken apart. I chose dramatic colors to interpret the theme.

Jeri Beitel, Santa Fe, NM colorway@hotmail.com A City Divided This original piece is all about the meaning behind the design. It is meant to show the change that can occur from the lesser character of that section with more evidence of graffiti and deterioration to the more polished part of the city. I have chosen bold colors for accent and a dividing line as a lightning bolt for the division and to give it more emphasis and drama.

Jane Ann Bode, Sapello, NM jadbode@gmail.com Barn #1 The first of the tributes to the history of the Sapello River valley. This barn was built in the 1940s.

Jane Ann Bode, Sapello, NM jadbode@gmail.com Barn #2 Could I do this: could I create an image from weaving scraps given to me by the daughter of the man who built this barn in the 1940s?

Julia Margaret Brigham, Ocate, NM blueiris@kitcarson.net, blueirisstudiogallery.com Koi Music Water is home for my beautiful koi and goldfish. This structure, H2O makes life possible.

My Koi pond is my favorite meditation place.

The image is on a background fabric that has been painted with Shiva Oil Bars. The fish and waterlilies are thread painted and appliquéd onto the background.. I used Angelina fibers to create the iridescent effect of fish scales. I often call artists “spirit speakers”. The beauty of our natural world and awareness of our collective ideas and ideals are all subjects that I as an artist interpret in my art. I have been an artist for over 40 years working in watercolor, acrylic, oil and collage. In the past 4 years my love of fibe and fabric has taken me into this new art form which I call Thread painted Studio Art quilts. Now my paint is thread and my brush is the needle on my sewing machine. I freely move the fabric under the needle to draw and paint my images.

I love to create abstract rhythms juxtaposed with realism and order. The medium is unimportant; it’s the spirit of each piece that touches the soul.

Schatzi Brimer, Santa Fe, NM sbrimerartquilts@gmail.com Lamellae Osteoporosis is a silent disease that can cause debilitation and lead to loss of independence or early death. The supporting structure of the human body is made of many layers, as seen in this microscopic representation of trabecular bone. The structure of trabecular bone is deposited in the form of layers called “lamellae”. To create this representation, I started with a background of cotton fabric, to which I added acrylic paint. I then added four layers of a non-woven material to create the “webbing”. Each of the layers of non-woven was painted, ironed onto fusible web, cut with a heat knife, fused onto the previous layer and stitched.

Schatzi Brimer, Santa Fe, NM sbrimerartquilts@gmail.com Inner Strength The supporting structure of the human body is made up of bones. This is a representation of a microscopic photo of trabecular bone. The image is painted on fabric using acrylic paint and enhanced with detailed thread stitching.

Schatzi Brimer, Santa Fe, NM sbrimerartquilts@gmail.com Urban Sunset The colors produced by the setting sun provide a dramatic backdrop to the structures that define the city skylin .

Betty Busby, Albuquerque, NM Fbusby3@comcast.net, Bbusbyarts.com Fungia Corals and their intricate interior structures have always been fascinating to me. My parents brought a small piece of mushroom coral from Hawaii when we lived there over fifty years ago. I used it as an inspiration for this wildly colored work.

Betty Busby, Albuquerque, NM Fbusby3@comcast.net, Bbusbyarts.com Birds of New Zealand On a recent teaching trip to New Zealand, I was struck at the difference in the island fauna compared to the animals that live in a large continent. The birds, in particular were really unique- from the critically endangered kiwi to the ever present pukeko. All depend on the fragile structure of the special ecosystem that is found only in New Zealand.

Betty Busby, Albuquerque, NM Fbusby3@comcast.net, Bbusbyarts.com Disco Urchin The variety of structures found in the echinoderm family has been an endless source of inspiration to me. Wildly different in appearance, yet still bearing a family resemblance, they lend themselves to creative interpretation.

Carolyn Castaneda, Santa Fe, NM nmartscapes@yahoo.com, enchanted-quiltscapes.com Out Of The Ashes During a trip to NYC in 2014 I photographed the new World Trade Center building. It had just been completed except for the spire. The building is an octagon made with 8 triangles lined up in reverse order (base to tip to base, etc.) that become equidistant in the center. Included in the quilt are ghost images of some of the structures that were left of the previous World Trade Center after 9-11. For the background I painted a muslin panel with black acrylic paint and the building was made from cottons and metallic fabrics placed upon a synthetic fabric panel I bought in Spain.

Carolyn Castaneda, Santa Fe, NM nmartscapes@yahoo.com, enchanted-quiltscapes.com Divided We Fall This quilt represents a structure of what our country has become an America polarized and divided.

Shannon Conley, Moore, OK la.emperatriz@gmail.com, shannonconleyartquilts.com Conformational Change All proteins adopt a precise 3-dimensional structure depending on their composition, function, and location inside (or outside) of our cells. Subtle changes in this protein structure, a process known as conformational change, lead to the cellular signaling processes that underlie almost all of our bodily functions.

Conformational change occurs in response to stimuli of many types including the binding of other proteins, the covalent addition of chemical side chains, mechanical signals, and chemical signals. The scientific advancements that have enabled us to measure these tiny changes are amazing and have enabled a much clearer understanding of both basic biology and disease pathologies. This piece depicts the retinal protein rhodopsin in its unactivated conformation on the left and its activated conformation on the right.

Conformational change in rhodopsin is initiated by light, allowing binding of downstream proteins and initiation of the signal transduction cascade which leads to vision.

Shannon Conley, Moore, OK la.emperatriz@gmail.com, shannonconleyartquilts.com Topography II-Crest Trail The fl xibility of cloth and stitch lends itself well to creating motion and texture, and I’m interested in how the processes of layering and then taking away can create dimension and shape. Layer after layer is peeled away to expose what’s underneath: organic openings that shift in shape, color, and depth. This piece began with hand painted cloth and a machine quilted base, and then fabric was layered and cut away, before being anchored with hand stitching. Each layer corresponds to a 160ft topo line from a USGS map of the White Mountain Wilderness in southern New Mexico. The region depicted was chosen in gratefulness for my favorite childhood hiking trail: Crest Trail #25, a region sadly devastated by forest fires in the past few years.

Vicki Conley, Ruidoso Downs, NM vickiconley55@gmail.com, vicki-conley.com Cerro Castellan Deposited over eons of time, layer upon layer of strata tell the story of our past; of our ever changing planet, our environment, and life itself. The geological and biological cycles that give us the striking rock formations that capture our attention today are unending and ongoing. These structures will evolve and erode away only to be captured eventually as new layers of sediment, preserving and telling the story of our future.

Vicki Conley, Ruidoso Downs, NM vickiconley55@gmail.com, vicki-conley.com Orogeny Sedimentation, fracturing, thrusting, shifting, erosion, wind, water, gravity, acid rain, glaciation, earthquakes, volcanic eruption, subduction, convergence, folding, faulting, and time, time, time, form the largest and oldest structures on the earth.

Vicki Conley, Ruidoso Downs, NM vickiconley55@gmail.com, vicki-conley.com Spring Storm in Denali Sudden storms coupled with warming at the end of a long winter lead to ever changing spring colors in Denali National Park. As the white snow recedes to the high mountains, early green grasses, mosses, and wildfl wers appear in the valleys below. The extreme forces of nature constantly affect changes to the structure of this expansive landscape. It awaits exploration around every bend in the road.

Rod Daniel, Placitas, NM rod1951@gmail.com, danielfibe arts.com Come On In This image represents an abandoned adobe home near Socorro, NM, from a photograph by Jim Carnevale. Like so many old structures in New Mexico, this home holds the stories of the people who once lived here. The home, now in tumble down condition, retains the rich elements of adobe construction. The colors visible in the old adobe bricks, and the interior walls provided opportunities to explore a wide range of fabrics. This quilt was constructed using fabric collage and hand appliqué, finished with free motion ma hine quilting.

Rod Daniel, Placitas, NM rod1951@gmail.com, danielfibe arts.com Glamping “Glamping” is a contraction for “glamour camping,” a term frequently associated with Airstream camping. Being an owner of an Airstream, I am always on the lookout for that perfect New Mexico setting, a campsite adjacent to a river or a lake, with no other signs of human life. While my search goes on, this quilt is intended to satisfy my imagination and fascination for my elusive waterfront campsite. The quilt is fabric collage and hand appliqué, finishe with free motion machine quilting.

Rod Daniel, Placitas, NM rod1951@gmail.com, danielfibe arts.com Old Town Nocturne One summer night in Albuquerque’s Old Town Plaza, I took a photograph of the east side of the Plaza.

The time was late and there were no cars or people in sight. The geometry of the lines in the buildings combined with the infinity lines of the street made for a striking image. My mind’s eye shouted out to me - make this in to a quilt. Using primarily shades of black and white, I incorporated fabric collage and hand applique, finishing the quilt with free motion machine quilting.

Cheryl FitzGerald, Albuquerque, NM cherylf@swcp.com, cherylfquilts.com Inside The Capitol Dome Based on a photo I took in the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver. I was fascinated by and wanted to capture the perspective of looking up into the dome from an angle.

Cheryl FitzGerald, Albuquerque, NM cherylf@swcp.com, cherylfquilts.com Modern Log Cabin This is an abstract interpretation of the traditional quilting block, Log Cabin, which has a red center representing the hearth. The extensive quilting adds another design element to the piece.

April Whiteside Foster, Santa Fe, NM aprilspring43@msn.com Bandelier Bandelier National Monument is a very special place. Here in the Frijoles Canyon you can see the cliff dwellings and kivas, the areas that were gardens and orchards. This was an Ancestral Puebloan community and was the home of these ancient people and the cliff dwellings that kept them comfortable in the winter and summer. Frijoles Creek provided fresh water for them and for their crops. This is a place we should all visit and let our imaginations have free rein as to what this would have been like so many centuries ago. What a wonderful and special place to have lived.

April Whiteside Foster, Santa Fe, NM aprilspring43@msn.com Fractures I love seeing the rock formations in the road cuts along our highways. The way the rock fractures allowing us to see how the movement of the earth created these wonderful patterns and designs. To see the different angles that rocks are lying and how different rocks have intruded into paces occupied by newer or older rocks, creating fractures in the rocks of different types and colors. Then into these fractures plants, trees and grasses have made a home and have begun to change the face of these road cuts from bare, raw cuts to something living and evolving into a softer look.

April Whiteside Foster, Santa Fe, NM aprilspring43@msn.com Inside Out The anatomy of a volcano. I think the inside of a volcano is wonderful and exciting. Beginning with the rock layers of the earth’s crust surrounding the magma chamber, the magma chamber and then the lava that is being forced out. This piece is all about turning the volcano structure we see inside out.

Cynthia Fowler, Santa Fe, NM CLFJAM-Cindy@yahoo.com Boxes, Little Boxes Boxes come in many shapes and sizes. They hold the things we love and cherish. They hold the things we cannot bear to give up but choose not to see.

Boxes organize our physical space. They organize our mental and emotional spaces as well. In the Structure of Our Life, there are many boxes. What will we find when we open one? Hand painted silk, painted Reemay, and commercial cotton. Machine pieced, appliqued, and quilted.

Lorraine Hollingsworth, Albuquerque, NM laholli@live.com 3rd and Tijeras The 3rd and Tijeras quilt reflects my interest in and love of architecture. This is the view south from Civic Plaza in Albuquerque and I was drawn to the interesting angles and layers of buildings that can be seen, including reflected in the windows.

Lorraine Hollingsworth, Albuquerque, NM laholli@live.com Connections II Connections II is based on a photograph of a daylily that I played with in Photoshop to create an abstract, structural piece. It includes both hand-painted and commercial fabric, fused and machinequilted.

Michelle Jackson, Sandia Park, NM michellejackson@quiltfashions.com www.quiltfashions.com Old Blue Abandoned structures like this old truck seem to take on a life of their own as they decay and age in the New Mexico sun.

Raw edge fused with tulle overlay. Machine quilted.

Colleen Konetzni, Rio Rancho, NM collyquilt@msn.com Iris Garden The structure of the garden is a combination of many parts. The tall majestic iris initially catch our eye, but slowly the garden reveals elements. A spider web with a spider, a small weed and other plant forms all come together to create an oasis and home.

Colleen Konetzni, Rio Rancho, NM collyquilt@msn.com Jetty Jacks – Unintended Consequences Manmade structures called jetty jacks were placed in a river’s flood plain to trap sediment and debris during flood , interrupting the natural process of the river.

The structures along the Rio Grande were initially helpful, as they were built to protect habitats and reduce erosion. As dams were built along the river, over time the flooding was reduced. But, an unintended consequence is seen throughout the valley.

Without floodin , the native cottonwood saplings cannot get started, and instead invasive species have begun to take over.

Ginny McVickar, Pleasant Hill, OR mcvickarg@gmail.com, www.timelessarts. blogspot.com Tsankawi~15th century Cliff Dwelling Residents of this Pueblo village (San Ildefonso Pueblo ancestors) carved out already existing ‘cavates’ to customize them as dwellings. The rock is tuff, a porous volcanic formation that is relatively soft.

The pathways and climbing holes made by thousands of bare feet and hands are still plainly visible today 600 years later. The holes where the vigas were inserted into the tuff are showing that some dwellings were two storied structures. It stirs the imagination to picture a thriving village located high on a plateau overlooking a fertile valley where crops were raised with the Sangre de Cristo peaks in the background.

Ginny McVickar, Pleasant Hill, OR mcvickarg@gmail.com, www.timelessarts. blogspot.com Reclamation This ghost town Trading Post stands empty once again, the brightly painted woodwork and lettering somewhat weathered by the harsh elements.. A vine growing in front of the building has found an opening in the broken storefront window and is now thriving inside as well as out, enjoying the greenhouse effect of the glass.

Nature has prevailed once again and has reclaimed its place.

Ginny McVickar, Pleasant Hill, OR mcvickarg@gmail.com, www.timelessarts.blogspot.com Helix~Strength in Diversity Your DNA is what makes you so uniquely you. Someone else right next door or half way around the globe has a DNA make up that makes him uniquely him. Our DNA molecules are so long they have to coil tightly in a double helix, a curved structure, to fit inside cells that form our chromosomes. We are all different and have our own instructions for life. I see the spiral repeated so often in Nature in plant seeds, tornadoes, vine growth and the curve of a snail shell. Man has replicated this efficient structure that makes the best use of a small space in such creations as spiral staircases, traffic interchanges, and springs.

In our DNA molecules we find strength in our diversity.

Anne Moats, Albuquerque, NM anne.moats001@comcast.net Tourmaline Pocket The perfection of nature’s crystal forms hide in dark pockets within solid rock until we are lucky enough to find them. This is my imagining of a spray of bi-colored tourmalines discovered within such a hidden pocket, now coming to the light for the first time. The saturated color of the fabrics mirror the saturated color of the crystals. By intensely quilting the dark interior of the void in the rock and only lightly quilting the surrounding cobbles, I could then enjoy the freedom of conveying the three-dimensional quality of the scene.

Anne Moats, Albuquerque, NM anne.moats001@comcast.net Old Mill Foundations at Copper Flats This old mill at Copper Flats (near Hillsboro, New Mexico) attests to our history of copper mining. I was struck by both the stark form of the concrete foundations and the bluegreen copper stains painting the walls.

Gale Oppenheim-Pietrzak, Santa Fe, NM goppie@sbcglobal.net Trellis Nature needs a good strong base to create a good bloom. This quilt was created with commercial fabric, hand dyed fabric, yarn and was pieced and appliqued by machine.

Char Punke, Albuquerque NM charpunke@gmail.com, charpunkefibe artist.com Big Shoulders Hiking in the mountains replenishes my soul. My subject matter is nature. Through my artwork, I attempt to represent the natural world as viewed with my lens. With the use of dyes, paints, sunprints, batiks, various threads and quilting my representational art lives. The goal of the work is for the viewer to see the beauty in the world. “Big Shoulders”, one of my current pieces speaks to me of a natural structure that depicts strength, fortitude and solidarity. It reminds me that we all have more strength than we know. Throughout our lives we experience the storms, the seasons, the sunrises and the sunsets. We break down and we build back up. Like mountains we stand tall in adversity and carry on.

Char Punke, Albuquerque NM charpunke@gmail.com, charpunkefibe artist.com The Wall Hiking in the mountains replenishes my soul. My subject matter is nature. Through my artwork, I attempt to represent the natural world as viewed with my lens. With the use of dyes, paints, sun-prints, batiks, various threads and quilting my representational art lives. The goal of the work is for the viewer to see the beauty in the world. “The Wall”, one of my current pieces speaks to me of a natural structure that depicts strength, fortitude and solidarity. It reminds me that we all have more strength than we know. Throughout our lives we experience the storms, the seasons, the sunrises and the sunsets. We break down and we build back up. Like mountains and walls we stand tall in adversity and carry on.

Judith Roderick, Placitas, NM rainbowpaintr@comcast.net, www.judithroderick.com Home for the Male Great Bowerbird This species is the largest of the Bowerbirds and lives in Northern Australia. He builds a large two-walled avenue Bower. The Bower platforms, at both ends and through the Bower, are decorated with up to 1,000 objects! The Great Bowerbird prefers white objects, stones, snail shells, seashells, and red or other bright blossoms. He builds this to attract a mate, and protects and maintains it for years. In this quilt, he raises his lilac-pink nuchal crest to attract a mate, as he struts in front of his Bower. I am a silk-painter, so most of the elements of this quilt are painted on silk.

The Bowerbird is on silk charmeuse, the whole quilt on silk organza, with various silk additions of sticks, trees, rocks, fl wers, and stenciled silk butterflie . It is layered, fused and machine quilted. And then I, as the male Bowerbird, carefully chose and meticulously placed each object. I chose various shell beads and buttons, each of which I sewed on by hand, to create my Bower, my beautifully embellished home.

Judith Roderick, Placitas, NM rainbowpaintr@comcast.net, www.judithroderick.com Regent Bowerbird The male Regent Bowerbird of Australia is the most stunningly bright and beautiful of his species. Thus, he only has to build a simple bower, and spends less time in decorating it then the other Bowerbirds do. Here, he is arranging his stash of objects, in this case buttons, to attract his potential drably colored mate. This is a whole cloth hand-painted silk jacquard quilt. It is machine quilted, with added yarn and silk “sticks� for his bower, stenciled silk butterflie , and assorted vintage buttons.

Judith Roderick, Placitas, NM rainbowpaintr@comcast.net, www.judithroderick.com Vogelkop Bowerbird This is my 4th, handpainted silk, Bowerbird Quilt. I’ve been collecting red objects for him for years, as this is the New Guinea, male, Vogelkop Bowerbird, who decorates his Bower with distinct, neat piles of colorful and attractive objects. He has quite the eye for color, and particularly favors RED, black, and blue. He constructs a large, complex, Maypole type Bower around a tree. Visual effect is of crucial importance to him, and he works on it for many years. He is constantly adjusting and arranging it. I love helping him to build his multi-layered bower, and to place his diverse, carefully chosen objects. We have many characteristics in common. I’m sure if I were a bird, I would be a Bowerbird.

Lynn Rogers, Rio Rancho, NM kblr049@aol.com Tent Rocks Our earth contains many fantastic natural structures, and among the very unique are the Tent Rocks found on the Pajarito Plateau in New Mexico.

Approximately 6 to 7 million years ago, volcanic eruptions in the Jemez Volcanic Field, spewed rock fragments call pyroclasts.

Hot gases created a pyroclastic fl w and ash deposits from the eruptions settled in deep layers. Over time wind and water eroded these layers into the structures we now call tent rocks. Looking like caricatures of teepees topped with mushrooms, the beautiful layers create a fanciful landscape which has inspired artists through time.

Nancy J. Steidle, Santa Fe, NM mssnjs@aol.com Tears in Heaven My art quilts are a construction of fabric, fiber , threads and beads. The process of construction adds structure to my creativity. The quilted layers of “Tears in Heaven� are a commentary on living with extended drought, wildfires so fierce they create their own weather and virga - precipitation that evaporates before reaching the parched earth. Cotton fabric discharged by artist, commercial cotton fabric painted by artist. Machine quilted with silk thread; hand beaded with glass seed beads, bugle beads, copper beads, daggers and dragon scales.

Polly Summar, Santa Fe, NM pollyx99@yahoo.com Presence and Absence The natural landscape structures the emotional content of the story this quilt is trying to tell. The stitching emerges as an organic element of a topography that includes field and forests and other geographical and mythological features. During the making of the quilt, I was trying to come to terms with my relationship to my late brother, who was killed at 23 by a drunk driver. I pieced a background of fabric squares, then sliced into them in haphazard manner and turned the pieces in random directions, just as our lives had been upended when my brother died. Improvising, with red thread I began to stitch and quilt by hand. The green thread then came in serendipitously as a relational counterpart. As the process unfolded, the two lives were seen to be bound together again, intertwined and inseparable.

Susan Szajer, Santa Fe, NM sszajer@gmail.com, susanszajer.com Beneath the Exterior At times, certain organic structures are hidden from plain sight. Like structural elements in the walls of a house, vascular elements in leaves provide form and function. Beautiful lace-like matrices are exposed after the surface layers are semi decomposed. In the fall, it becomes apparent how the intricate structure of the leaf facilitates the external beauty we all admire.

Susan Szajer, Santa Fe, NM sszajer@gmail.com, susanszajer.com Flight of Fancy I imagine I was always intrigued by feathers. Upon finding one, I would marvel at its lightness and intricate composition.

Interlocking hooklets and barbs insulate birds from water and cold temperatures. A collection of colorful feathers becomes a “Flight of Fancy� and is the subject of this work.

Susan Szajer, Santa Fe, NM sszajer@gmail.com, susanszajer.com Slate Mine, Vanadium, NM In the copper rich hills of southwest New Mexico, basic shack-like structures house mining shafts and equipment used many years ago. They house core drilling machines and samples.

These abandoned structures have outlived their use and are examples of irresponsible industrial practices and abuse of our natural resources.

Melanie Weidner, Los Ranchos, NM melanie@ListenForJoy.com, www.ListenForJoy.com Cataclysm Endings and destruction are part of the fabric of our Universe-- unavoidably.

Brian Swimme’s teachings on “Cataclysm� inspired me to consider actually embracing this letting go as an important part of recreation. In this image, I am exploring that breakdown. I am also asking a fierc question about dismantling structures of power, thought, and violence that harm our selves, each other, and the planet as a whole.

As I literally cut apart and shredded guns, bombs, a colonial mansion, and trilobite fossils, I imagined us transforming those materials into new life-enhancing forms for the future.

Melanie Weidner, Los Ranchos, NM melanie@ListenForJoy.com, www.ListenForJoy.com Seamlessness I’m deeply inspired by the structure of our Universe emerging from an energetic realm of possibility. My favorite scientist, Brian Swimme, calls this pure generativity, or “Seamlessness.” I’ve imagined matter and light coming to being, using hand-altered fabric, swirling piles of thread, and stitched paths of interconnection.

Are these atoms forming, or the galaxies themselves? Whether tiny or immense, all aspects of life and space are interconnected in this seamless web.

Lynn B. Welsch, Mimbres, NM lbwelsch@huges.net, mountainspiritsstudio.blogspot.com House on Lake Coeur d’Alene I photographed this house while boating with friends on Lake Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho. I immediately thought it would be a great subject for a quilt!

Lynn B. Welsch, Mimbres, NM lbwelsch@huges.net, mountainspiritsstudio.blogspot.com Monhegan Island Moment Eleven miles off the coast of Maine sits the car free island of Monhegan. I love walking around and seeing the old New England houses and boats!