Beginning with my earliest
traditional quilts, my work has shared an illusion of light and a content
that expresses the natural world. The organic forms of shibori led me to
an exploration of landscape and seascape images. Without being politically
correct in a heavy handed way, these pictorial quilts participate in current
ecological issues while tapping the long American tradition of creating
images of our land.
The quilts often fall within
the luminist tradition of stillness, providing a window on a calmer world,
similar to Asian traditions where landscape imagery is a meditation tool.
Working in series emphasizes cycles of time and nature's rhythms. My quilts
preserve memories of my favorite breathing spaces or in commission work,
they recreate other people's special views to enjoy year round.
I'm grateful that the struggle
to make art decisions is balanced by the physical labor of fabric dyeing
and the calm of stitching. I have made quilts for over eighteen years and
have been a dyer for about fifteen years. My work has been exhibited nationally
and internationally, and can be found in public and private collections,
as well as various publications. My energies are also directed at teaching
and a production line of dyed silk scarves under the label 'amano'. I live
and work in Cambridge, MA.
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