A little Inca obsession
I just read Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s history of the Inca, as well as some material on Inca textiles. This civilization is perhaps the most alien of any ruling class in human history. They were so weird that I also wrote a story about their quipu (knotted strings) as a binary version of an alphabet.
This Inca thing has possessed me for several years. The quilt ‘El Dorado’ is made from two oil paintings from 2004, cut up and re-combined here with a more textile context, including the very necessary Inca fringe. Paintings, after all, are just surface decoration on canvas. I also made a much bigger quilt of Inca blocks in the 04/05 years, and I have used the outline of the blocks for a medley of Zentangle® designs. There will probably be more iterations yet…