Exotic Journey
24” X 36”  [2002]

Exotic Journey

The quilt artists in Columbia Stitchery Guild’s “High Fiber Diet” art-quilt group decided to make quilts for a one-year traveling show, to be called “Journeys.” All the quilts were the same size. Twelve of us interpreted the theme, with wide-ranging diversity. The quilts were exhibited in several venues including the Latimer Textile Museum.

When I think of a “Journey,” my imagination always takes me to a warmer place, with beautiful flowers, a fragrant warm breeze, sunshine and nature’s never-ending beauty. Winged insects like butterflies and dragonflies represent to me the unfolding of something beautiful, and almost magical. Will this dragonfly decide to visit the Bird-of-Paradise bloom, or continue to explore?

The dragonfly wings have an organza overlay and hand beading.