Portland Modern Quilt Guild Beaverton, Oregon, United States
I issued a public challenge for submissions for this project. The following simple instructions were given: use solid-colored fabric; using contrasting thread, stitch a line; using a different thread, stitch a second line that crosses it; sign it. I have always thought that art can be considered a language of communication. Sometimes, when words and rhetoric get lost in the noise, art can cut through it by illustrating the concepts in different ways. As a person with a life-long fascination with how words function, I looked for a way to illustrate the idea that, while we all might hear the same words, what we make of them is often quite different. Just listen to opposing political views to see how language can be stretched to encompass fully contradictory meanings depending on who’s listening. Thus, polarizing rhetoric aside, how could the interpretation of language be illustrated? Like this?
