Click the photo for a two minute video about the book: Places We Find Ourselves, created for a grant that provides some insight about the book. Alternatively, here is the link: https://youtu.be/t2CRYJEUVmg 

 

The two photobooks will be available in fall 2026 and summer-fall 2027, respectively from this site as well as Amazon, Ingrahm, and the Blurb online bookstores. My quilts and the wall photographs of the quilts with separate narratives accompanying them will be available for sale in sets of three to ten with a reference to the larger photobooks. A choice between canvas, acrylic or metal photographs of the quilts will be offered in their original size as will be the actual art quilt pieces. As wall hangings, quilts require careful maintenance as they are vulnerable to viewers' touch and lint, so these other formats are offered. A list of titles, sizes, and prices will be listed on the site in fall 2026.  

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The photobook format provides an experience of image and word with a planned, sequential flow intended to elicit a personal reflection process. With a couple exceptions, I chose not to provide excerpts of the art or book pages of it here. I have a different way, however, to offer glimpses of the quilt art from the Places book through collage imagery. 

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Inner life can be understood as a continuously evolving “crazy quilt” with shifting juxtaposition of the pieces and variable stitching (or unravelling as the case may be). To explain this analogy better, I’ll say a bit about the history of the crazy quilt. The crazy quilt has been described as a patchwork of oddly shaped fabric scraps that occur in asymmetrical patterns stitched together with widely varying decorative stitches. The peak interest in this design came in the 1870s as a reaction to the highly rigid symmetry of traditional block-style quilts. The term “crazy” actually came from the word “crazing,” referring to the influence of cracked asymmetrical glazes on Japanese raku-ware and porcelain. This form of quilting lives on with its emphasis on highly individualized expression, which is part of its appeal to me in this display of both the inner life experience and the components of our project. The crazy quilt collages below contain snippets from the art quilts from the Places book, to give a clue as to what some of the art looks like.