The pieces in my series, “Conversation”, capture the fleeting dialog between clouds and waves at twilight, where reflected color and mirrored forms reveal a quiet exchange of light and motion. The rectilinear forms suggest a desire to capture the moment as it slips away toward night.

These art quilts are composed of hand-dyed white cotton fabric. I used arashi shibori dying techniques with fiber reactive dyes to achieve the rippled designs, sometimes over dying 2 or 3 times to apply several colors. Various sections are raw-edge appliqued in an overlapping pattern, layered with cotton batting and backing, and machine free-motion quilted.

Above: “Conversation I”, 45″x26″