On the Road: High Water
31 x 42 in.
Techniques: digitally manipulated images of an Alabama license plate, photo heat transfer, machine piecing, stamp-printing and painting, hand embroidery as quilting, hand-stitching of binding on back.
Materials: cotton twill (front and back), cotton embroidery floss, cotton-polyester binding, cotton-polyester thread, Createx acrylic paint.
Statement: This quilt series On the Road was inspired by my solo cross-country drive in 2008, from Los Angeles to New York City, during which I photographed license plates along the way.
EXHIBITED: 2010, Art Quilts XV: Needleplay (juried), Chandler Center for the Arts (Chandler, Arizona); 2012, Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition, published in catalogue
PUBLISHED: International Contemporary Masters XV, Worldwide Art Books, Santa Barbara, CA, 2023, p. 30.
Photo by Deidre Adams
$ 2,300.00
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