Boston Modern Quilt Guild Newton, Massachusetts, United States
This quilt is part of a years-long exploration of the beauty and necessity of failure. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with visible seams of precious metal, making the break more prominent instead of disguising it. The "brokenness" of the piece adds to its beauty. In this quilt, a traditional "Bear Paw" format, mistakes in measuring and piecing are "corrected" by inserting a strip of gold fabric, forming glowing cracks in the quilt’s otherwise regular surface, and decorative stitching forms ripples moving outward from where the cracks intersect.
