by Lin Hsin-Chen
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| Contagious |
My imagination goes wild.
I draw the flowers freely to depict the impressive natural movement and
texture. I challenge myself to create a contagious piece of work with simple
color blocks.
Making this quilt is like
sketching. I use fabrics dyed with acrylic paints to piece the color blocks,
making it looks like a piece of drawing. With a sense of retro, I use needle
and thread as painting brushes to test the energy of hand drawing and explore
the joy of spontaneous creativity.
I love handwriting. I
think handwriting is an emotion, an image and a sense of healing. Therefore, I
do handwriting and sketching everyday, it’s just like the habit of having a cup
of coffee every morning. The stories written in the notebooks are very
important. To me, the texture transformed by the strokes and lines of words are
truly valuable. Different strokes have diverse feelings. Naturally they become
beautiful rhythm and cadence, and dance lively on the paper to evoke creative
inspiration.
In this challenge, we are
asked to use unconventional materials. To me, commercial cotton is
indispensable for creating. I rarely use dyed fabrics in my previous works.
This is my first time using dyed fabric exclusively in a quilt. It is a
pleasure sewing the flower. Just like sketching happily on the paper, it gives
me a non-stop contagious power. For a moment I thought I was a painter. Thank
you, Betty, for the challenge!
Materials: fabric dyed
with acrylic paints, woolen yarn
Techniques: hand pieced,
hand appliqué, hand embroidered, three-layered hand quilted
Size: 24” W x 40” H
just beautiful, Hsin-Chen, the lines are so expressive!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI hope you will use this technique again! Wonderful! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI love this Hsin-Chen! Your painting analogy is appropriate and I think the black, sketchy lines add a beautiful dimension.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the lovely comments! Betty- thank you for the challenge topic, it gives me lots of things to think! Sue- I will try this again, though it is quite challenging to me during the creative process! To be honest, I had fear of using dyed fabric because I always create with commercial cottons. It’s interesting to try new things, but it’s also difficult to get rid of the old habits. I was struggle with it and found it very conflicting. It’s excited that I finally find a new way to create! Again, I learned a lot from this piece of work!
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