Remember Earth
In honor of February’s ‘Snow Moon,’ I made this quilt with hand-painted silks and a commercial batik fabric. It is meant to create nostalgia in space travellers for what they left behind. Of course, they see the heavens with the colors of their own experiences, which is not exactly the more black-and-white way that we think of the Milky Way from high in the mountains of Colorado. Thanks to the Hubble telescope, we know that those colors are out there…