“There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!”
12 inches x 12 inches(33 cm x 33 cm)
metallic and cotton threads, polyester batting
I haven't been keeping the first 132 panels from you for my own selfish reasons. Since I promised myself to make one panel a month for the foreseeable future, and since I realized I was running out of January, I picked up the book again over the long weekend and started reading near the end.
This one is more literal/figurative than the other panels, but I offer as pardon the fact that the book also mixes styles and careens wildly between the abstract and concrete. I'll see how it fits as the series grows. This is the ninth panel in order of creation, 133rd in order of ambition. (One for each chapter, and there are 136 chapters. I won't lack for something to do for quite a long time.)
(note: the brownish bits in the top corners are not the panel but a cardboard under it and my crazy camera 'skills')
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5 comments:
Hi Mel...yes, representational but only if the viewer knows it is based on MD and then only if they study the piece and realize that is a whale's tail. I did not 'see' that when I first looked at the piece! I like this very much.
This is a very interesting project you have undertaken. I'm curious how you happened to choose this book for a quilt?? Interesting. I wasn't sure, in the begining, if I was understanding the whole thing correctly, but apparently I did. I can't say I remember the book that well, so the quilt pieces probably won't make a lot of sense to me individually.
I'm a new blogger and found you through the ginger cats in Wales. Then I found that Natalya comments on your page a lot, and I know her through Jane and Elin. This internet thing is just amazing! Anyhow, I have enjoyed looking at your lovely work and your fun words along the way and I've bookmarked your blog. KarenLR
ahoy there maytey! lovely work...
wv - culecti (must be a collection of cacti)
And I thought the brownish bits were the best! :o)
Only joking (cough), this is the second time of leaving a comment on this piece - don't know what happened to the first ? which went something like this:
My reading of the piece was immediately that it was more abstract than representational, but soon began to see the great White tail, which I remember clearly from my time aboard the Black Pig :o)
ps: Love the colouring, and the circular stitching lines.
wv: berpersb, which can only refer to a subtle state of mind somewhere between where have I been and where do I go from here.
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