The Eye of the Quilter: Reflections
Sunday, November 7th, 2010Last year, Karey Bresenhan and company (the forces of nature behind the International Quilt Festivals) had a great idea: an exhibit of the photos quilters use to inspire them. The small exhibit was such a success that they are doing it again this year, and two of my three entries were accepted!
The theme this year is Reflections. As soon as I heard that, I KNEW I wanted to have this photo as one of my entries, titled Joy Reflected. It is the day we brought home our puppy for our son’s 9th birthday gift:
I also remembered a photo I took while on a visit to the Maine Coastal Botanical Gardens with the Frayed Edges. Since the photo was a bit tippy, I fiddled a bit with it in photoshop to make it look better (including odd clipped edges). It is, to me, one that captures all the elements: Earth (the rock and trees), Water (caught in the carved boulder), Air (reflected sky) and Fire (that helped create the rock), so I called it Elemental:
When I was teaching in Arizona, the hotel in Flagstaff had these AMAZING carved doors. I am always on the lookout for quilting motifs, so snapped a few photos. Although this photo didn’t make it in to the exhibit, I still like it. And I, my camera flash and the overhead lights are reflected in the shiny doorknobs: