All explorers have in common great curiosity and a sense of adventure. Since the earliest times, men have sailed the seas, gone deep into the jungle, inventoried flora and fauna. With the discoveries of new countries, new trade routes have motivated the movement of other people who were simply in search of a better life.
I used my own hand dyed cotton fabrics but also fabrics that I painted by crumpling them up and using a large flat brush to apply paint or pigments. To represent elements of vegetation, I made silk paper, mixing silk fibres with wallpaper glue. The use of ecoprints on paper refers to the catalogues or herbariums that explorers brought back from their travels and in which they recorded the various animal and plant species. They are glued on the surface with gel medium and then waxed. All images are made from my own prints or linocuts and fused. The back of the quilt is assembled in a more abstract and spontaneous way using scraps. Free motion quilting with rayon thread on the top and neutral cotton thread on the back.
