Thursday, November 15, 2012

Andrea's Travel Quilt


Door Locked
First Class Passengers Only

commercial fabric, screened, color pencils, photo transfer

In June of 1967 I traveled to Europe for the first time with my parents and sister aboard the SS France.  When I heard that our new theme was TRAVEL, I immediately decided that I wanted to "honor" this very special experience.  I believe that this was the start of my love of travel, architecture and photography.
The first layer of imagery was screened onto batik fabric with discharge paste to remove the color.  The second layer of images were screened with transparent grey fabric paint.  The third layer screened in black are (left): the first page of the journal that my mother kept, documenting our trip, the text on the lower right is an enlargement from a typewritten paragraph from the travel scrapbook that I compiled when we returned home.  I love to incorporate text into my work, especially handwritten text.
My original idea was to include an image that would read:

Door Locked
First Class Passengers Only
because that was a memorable part of our ship experience.  We were traveling "Tourist Class" and when exploring, encountered many locked doors, as we were not permitted in the "First Class" sections of the ship!

6 comments:

  1. Andrea, If I had been in First Class you would have been welcome! What a loss to those travelers to miss you. When are you going to teach me the wonderful world of silk screening in detail. Love your work

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  2. I'd like to view this one up close and personal. I want to read the writing and see the details. :) I like your story too and your techniques are intriguing.

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  3. I wish you were not so far away. I would love to learn your techniques. Beautiful square.

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  4. Andrea, I am only today commenting on yours. It was so rich in detail that yesterday, so exhausted from my trip, I didn't feel that I could do it justice! I needed to come back to study it more and see all the intricacies of your construction process. I so love all the layers of the quilt! So much to see and to ponder. What a delightful experience that must have been. This quilt is wonderful; I agree with Linda that THIS group of quilts might well be our best group!

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  5. Love all the layers that tell your story. This would be a fun one to just study and see all that you did to it. Would love to see close up photo's. Great job!

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  6. What a great story and perfect quilt! I think we should have a retreat so that you can teach all of us your techniques! I just love the fact that you incorporated text from your mother's journal and from your own scrapbook. How priceless is this???

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