I am still playing with pattern, texture, colour and imagination. Art Journal pages have layers just like quilts.
A luggage tag and hotel business card from my father's trips for work and to visit my brother overseas, a ticket to a Broadway play that my husband and I remember with pleasure, and my membership card from the tennis club I belonged to in Venelles during my father's sabbatical in Aix en Provence.
A page from my mother's address book with jottings in her amazing spidery scrunched handwriting and a note card from our neighbourhood community centre reminds me to be proud of my roots.
A photograph of an old fashioned plane collaged on top reminds me to be grateful for my wings.
I tell the kids "Don't worry, I'm still a quilter".
I'm a quilter, and a designer, and a singer, and a writer and an artist and a...
8 comments:
Why can I never get my collaged pieces to look that good? Love it.
I love old scrunchy writing as well. and this is a great college... love the layers and textures but they still all come together...xx
Lovely collage, Mitzi! You are a woman of many talents. :)
Wonderful piece! I love all the memories preserved with the bits you used. Happy AEDM :)
Thanks Nigel!
Thanks Tracey!
Thanks Serena (I'm blushing)
Thanks Cat!
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