This is the second art quilt I’ve made utilizing my archival hand-bleached prints made in a time period between 2011 and 2017. Most of them are samples or leftovers from a variety of fashion projects I created over the years. From fish, scull, cat, flowers and lobster, to ornamental portraits of Alexander McQueen and erotic symbols, the variety of printing motifs are united by a single technique of bleaching colored fabrics through stencils, which produces white and pale graphic images.
When I was preparing to move to Canada, I realized that all the samples I collected during my years of experiments are worthy of becoming patchy quilts concentrated of ideas which were driving my creativity for a decade. The chapter of making stencil hand-bleached prints is finished, but it affects everything I do now, and therefore this series of three quilts plays significant importance in my creative journey.
I’ve added a few photos of original prints back from 2011 and 2017, to show you how they looked when they were hot off the press!
You can find the first quilt of the series here: You Cannot Make My Art Mute Quilt.