BARBARA WEEKS

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Break Through

Break through... cracking Ice beneath my feet in frozen puddles, one of the joys of a crisp winter day.  Break through... ice melting in Greenland and the Antarctic signals concern over the global warming.  Break through... the North West Passage opens to allow an ice breaker through for the first time.

Fabric surface design with steam fixed silk dyes; background is painted silk dupion; ice floes are habutai using wax resist.  I use wool batting to create a visible contract between the densely quilted, thus flattened, background and the ice floes, treated with metallic thread and twin needle stitching.  This stitching links the more distant floes but in the foreground there is drama in the isolation.  Missing are the stranded polar bears and the penguins.

Materials: dupion and habutai silks, wool wadding.
Techniques: hand dyes, batik, twin needle quilting.


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