Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me   found wool blanket, saddened with iron, cut and stitched with yarn,   67" x 62"  2020

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me (verso side)  vintage blanket saddened with iron, cut, appliqued and stitched by hand, 67" x 62"  2020

 Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me   2020

wool threads, dyed velvet
cut, appliqued, stitched by hand
a two sided piece

here viewed as a sculpture

Flowers Started Blooming Inside Me
detail of side a 

red moons

Red Moons 2014

re-claimed wool blanket, wool threads, hand stitch 52 x 361 cm (20 x 142 ")

Made from a re-constructed 90+ year old wool blanket, this cloth holds time and memory.  The several threadbare areas evoke the man, woman or child who lay with the blanket and repeatedly pulled it up as a covering.  Many of the worn areas are mended with darning stitch by the artist and the edges strengthened with blanket stitch.  These areas of recent handwork add another layer of human touch.

exhibition record:

2015
Hard Twist 10:  Memory
Gladstone Hotel  1214 Queen Street W,  Toronto M6J 1J6

2014: 
Red Moons was included in Judy's solo exhibition, Lucky Protection 
The northern artist's gallery:  artists on Elgin 168 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Ontario
lower two photographs: Nick Dubecki, Sudbury