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THE GARDEN, YEAR ONE: MARCH TO OCTOBER 2022
The fabric that makes up this quilt was dyed with plants grown from seed in the artist’s garden. It tells the story of the care and work put into the garden from March to October of 2022, from building the beds (as referenced by the wooden top), to collecting seeds and drying plants (shown in the bottom panel and fringe).
Quilting mirrors many of the repetitive acts of care performed in the garden during growing season. Watering, picking, touching, and pulling outside, turns to sewing, smoothing, pinning, and cutting inside the studio. The plants abstractly depicted are weld, coreopsis, and madder, and the different rows and bunches represent the summer and autumn harvests of each plant: coreopsis flowers were plucked in three rounds, while only a small amount of madder root was dug-up.
The quilt is approx. 3.2m x 0.9m (10.5ft x 3ft).