1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson. From the essay: The Psychometry of Books:

“The pleasure in a book is, or should be, sensuous as well as aesthetic, visceral as well as intellectual.”

The sin quilt has a name – see above. I know you are getting bored with this, but I had to get better photos so I went outside in the daylight where I would not get a reflection from the flash. I think these better represent how this looks. That is it. I promise not to impose my sin upon you any more!!

This is my piece, Indifference, for the Quilt Art Eighth Deadly Sin challenge. My studio is a mess. I’m a mess. I have a love/hate affair with this piece. There are elements that I love. I keep telling myself that it is not supposed to be pretty; I deliberately used colors that clash. The hands were giving me fits. I ended up using a reddish metallic organza for the hands because I felt the other red hands were too different from the rest of the fabrics I was using. I need to reshoot this in daylight because I am getting a lot of reflection from the lights, but I have to go to the SDA office to work tomorrow and I wanted to post this.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I did a layout in Pagemaker that I liked. So I started to work on the final design and thought I would practice painting the background words on some pfd white fabric. Then, I screen printed some images on that. Then I fall into my “just get it done” mode and decide to use the practice piece and change the design to fit what I had done. I went to bed last night and knew I needed to get up this morning and go back to the original design. So I rewrote the words on gray hand-dyed background. Screen printed the images in a row like my design. Decided to screen print the largest quote in orange for some variety. Now I have the design on my print table. It is unfused and unstitched. I am going to do some textural stamping on this once it is fused and stitched. I think I won’t do the huge indifference across th final piece as I feel that the title and quotes speak volumes. I think I am getting some good depth and an interesting design – as limited as I am by the subject matter. Here it is:

Here is a close-up.

I found this quote by C.S. Lewis, today, and WOW, it spoke to me as if it was written today about the current administration:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis

(OK, I had to look up cupidity – it means strong desire.)