Memory of Wikwemikong

Memory of Wikwemikong

2008, dyed rayon and cottons, layered and hand quilted with embroidery thread, 74 x 25"

In honour of the blue moon that happens tonight, August 31, 2023, I am posting Memory of Wikwemikong, a quilt that I made in 2008.

It is one of the first pieces I made having to do with cosmic imagery and the night sky.

I live on Manitoulin Island and am humbly aware of the great spiritual presence of this place, the ancestral home for thousands of years of the ojibwe peoples.

I look out over Manitowaning Bay towards the Wikwemikong Penninsula.

I laid out the layers of fabric that make up this piece when I was not at home.  I relied on my memory of what is, when I am home, my daily view.   (hence the title)

The back of the quilt is made up of four pieces of dyed rayon.  Hand quilted.

 Memory of Wikwemikong is in private collection in Sudbury, Ontario.  

Above Us

Above Us  2015   reverse side of  the air becomes cloth

silk,cotton, cotton and silk threads, quilted with reverse of hand embroidery
81 inches high, 40 inches wide

turning the air to cloth

turning the air to cloth  2015
linen, cotton, silk, procion mx dye, block printing ink, cotton and silk threads
batik, block print,completely hand stitched (hand construction, hand embroidery, hand quilting, hand quilting with embroidery
81 inches high, 40 inches wide (detail of hand embroidery shown above)

Birds in flight astound us when, moving in unison, their fleeting crosses darken the sky.
Suddenly they are gone and it's blue eternity again.

Exhibition:  In the spirit of Tom Thomson and the Group of seven
July 23 - August 7 2016 at the Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay, Manitoulin Island

silver water

Silver Water   2012    indigo on rayon and on linen with shibori markings, tucked seam, hand quilted with embroidery floss   14" x 54"   detail shown above

Silver Water 2012, Judith e Martin

Silver Water side b  2012  Judith e Maritn

Silver Water 2012  side b  procion dyed cotton and rayon, hand quilted with embroidery floss  14" x 54|"  (detail above)

Silver Water is in private collection  

Cross My Heart

Cross My Heart (detail),  2010
     33 inches h x 35 inches  w
     Materials: silk, linen, velvet, silk thread, dye, paint;
    Technique: layered, pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted     Photo:Judy Martin

Time is taken to make the work.   Time is a material.

Cross My Heart,  2010
     33 inches h x 35 inches  w
     Materials: silk, linen, velvet, silk thread, dye, paint;
    Technique: layered, pieced, hand embroidered, hand quilted   
     In private collection, it sold on opening day.      Photo: Judy Martin

 Exhibition and Publication

May-September 2011:  Quilt National, 2011, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athen's Ohio,
                                      toured USA and Europe through 2013

Quilt National 2011: The Best of Contemporary Quilts by Lark Crafts,   page 58