Quiltlet #17

I'm calling this one Frenetic. This is the first of two frenetic pieces I've made. It measures 14 x 16.5. Until last week, I didn't even know exactly what that word meant, but it came up recently in a conversation about a friend as a sort of way to put him down. It got me thinking about how we define order and chaos. In a world of individuals, sometimes we are judged by how well we fit the grid. Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" was all about this, George Orwell wrote about it often, and "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a movie which explores issues of conformity and compliance. In this quilt the improvisational design of the piecing represents a type of freneticism, as the grid, overlaid on the top, serves to imply conformity's will on the disorganized. I don't usually get this philosophical about my work, but this word has been on my mind recently. When I pieced this one together, I had to ask myself why it is so different than the quiltets that preceded it. I realized my friend and his situation was weighing heavily on my mind, and not surprisingly it came out in my work. I have another I'll post in a few days.