Art

     When we go to a quilt show we take photos of the quilts we like, right? Some quilts speak to us and some don't. Sometimes it's the workmanship, the overall look, the colors, the imagination or ingenuity. Maybe you're with a friend whose taste is opposite yours.  She may like modern, you like traditional. They may like art quilts and you don't so much.  Art quilts are certainly a medium no different than paints in a tube but sometimes that's disputed.  Personally, I am a believer. As a medium art quilts are important. I just could never make one.

     I fall into the traditional. I like to think I maybe could do what I'm looking at so the art quilts don't generally ring my bells. Maybe they do yours.  That's what we call variety.  

     Today I went down to our arts council building because Friend Barb reminded me they had an exhibit I had overlooked. 

     It was a three part show.  Some quilts, some representation of blooms in photos or paint, some sculpture in fabric. 

     I'm including in the first three photos the philosophy of the sponsor of the quilt part of the exhibit, and the explanation of the theme.  It looks like a lot of reading but I learned a lot by taking the time. Put your reading glasses on and take a minute.

    After you read the sign board titled Emerald Green all becomes clear. 

Since we take photos of the things we like or that speak to us, these were the ones I took a photo of. All of the quilts required at least a spot of green in them.

I love blue.  The quilting on this was amazing and I had to really look for the green.

I've spent many a sunset standing on the lake bluff at our house when we lived in South Haven looking for the elusive green flash. This quilt made me smile and wish I'd have thought of it.

This was just pretty.  Poison ivy in the fall, those red leaves. Other than the hint of green in the ferns the white flowers have a teeny french knot of green in them.

We are seeing political statements in quilts lately and being hung in shows and I applaud them. This one really made me stand there and read what this quilt had to say.

I shrugged and walked past this.  Didn't like the colors. But I stopped and read the maker's statement and went back to get my nose closer.  

The embroidery is the quilting stitch and then I decided "wow." Maybe, too,because this one was done by hand.

I didn't care for this quilt (the green is embroidered in the pictures of the sunflowers.)  Then I read the statement and thought otherwise.  The picture shows VanGogh licking his brush. Explanation below.

This was done by the quilter who quilted Charlie's quilt. 

So, out of 34 quilts hanging in this exhibit, these were the ones that personally spoke to me and so I took a photo.  There were others I just didn't "get" but that's art.