Rebecca Kaufman - Small Format Quilts: Digital Photograph Manipulation / Quilting

"Phone Jones"

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:26:15 CDT

Breakfast at DIA

Detail of "Misselthwaite"

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:05:31 CST

"Misselthwaite"

Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:05:29 CST

Digital image photo collage printed on white cotton quilted to grey wool. This was inspired by the first line of the book "The Secret Garden". "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too."

Detail of "and now it begins..."

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:20:57 CST

"and now it begins..."

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:20:55 CST

This work was inspired by the passing of time. Created by using a photograph of a tree taken by a friend as inspiration in my quilting class and a computer scan of a leaf I found. I made a photo collage with the images and used a filter on my photo program to stylize the image. I then printed the image on fabric and quilted it with free motion sewing. For the tree I used dark monofiliment so that the color of the tree was not distorted.

Detail of "mimsy innocence in the eyes of email "

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:20:53 CST

Mimsy innocence in the eyes of email

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:20:46 CST

The project: to create a quilted work inspired by the poem "the Jabberwocky". I really was inspired by this project. I have read some of Lewis Carroll's work as well biographical information. I tried to incorporate Carroll's suspect attraction to young girls into my piece with knowing eyes of a child. I was inspired by the poem "Jabberwocky" and how much it is like the spam email we get everyday. Email, like the Jabberwocky, tries to infiltrate our lives by deception and has the power of destruction.