Interstellar silk
‘Distant Planet is the second of the Interstellar quilts. Dyed silk combines with commercial cottons and machine quilting to evoke an unfamiliar sky. The shape of the quilt and the green silk reflect the quadrilaterals used extensively in Star Wars.
Photography from space exploration and science fiction blend freely in my first efforts. As I make more fabrics for this series of quilts, I hope to find the quilt-like features of space exploration that we tend to overlook. Most habitations, for example, come from archaeology or submarine design, and feature weapons as the most common human artifacts. It will be good to nurture a different vision…