Dee's Boundaries

Boundaries:  Slipping the Boundaries of Earth

Leaving earth and hurtling through cloud layers into a world of brightness and color was the sight awaiting me each day for 34 years when I went to work.  No matter the time zone or weather, I saw a sunrise or sunset at 36,000 feet; and very often both in the same day.

Techniques:  2 pieces of white PFD cotton fabric painted with Pebeo Transparent Paints.  One piece with more blue/purple, the other more yellow/orange.  These were cut apart and integrated at random.  The photo, which I took, of airplane wing and engine was printed onto cotton batiste from my ink jet HP printer. The quilt is 3 layers and quilted with 100 wt lavender invisafil/wonderfil. 

When I was ready to fuse the airplane image onto the painted background I thought the background looked too bright and too much going on for such a small space and the plane image was lost.  I flipped the painted piece to the back side and there was the picture I wanted! Not only was it a softer version but I liked the rawness of the exposed stitched seams.  This felt like the earthly boundary that I needed to slip past.   To add depth  and to make the exposed seams lay flat, I fused black netting over the top.  I wish I had put the netting on before quilting, then I would not have needed the Misty Fuse to adhere the netting.   This is mounted on an 11 x 14” canvas frame.