This month I have finished the last three pieces in my Mind Map series. These are made using red linen upholstery weight fabric that I was able to get inexpensively because it was 4 yards, but cut in two pieces. I made it work for the three artworks. There is some direct mark-making using black textile paint, and the other elements are appliqued and embroidered with many, many stitches.
The Mind Maps are about how we process information. The current strategy of “flooding the zone” has scrambled my thinking, leaving me overwhelmed and feeling powerless. In these last three red Mind Maps I was frantically stitching through the firehose of breaking news.
Two works from Her Armory are at the South Bend Museum of Art, in Hear Our Voices, an IWCA member show. Next week I will ship Mind Map: Overthinking to Visions Museum of Textile Art, San Diego, for Visions: Interpretations, opening October 17. Check out two other Mind Maps in the Art Quilt Network virtual exhibit Right Here Right Now
Here are a few Reading Suggestions: I loved Run for the Hills, by Kevin Wilson (in print), The Midnight Feast, by Lucy Foley; The Book of Love, by Kelly Link; Murder at Gull’s Nest, by Jess Kidd; The Frozen People, by Emily Griffiths, and some comfort reading, Mansfield Park, by Jane Austin.
