Framing Flourish, 31" x 36", 2010

I love the framing phase in the construction of a house. The inside and outside seem to occupy the same space unified by the linear structure of wooden beams. One sunny morning, I took several snapshots of a house in the framing stage. By afternoon, it was closed up with dry wall panels. To capture that moment in this quilt, I created a vast blue sky dotted with hand-stamped circles and stream-of-consciousness writings. Using a large stencil, I painted an open image of the framed entry way of the house. A cheery, wispy, yellow vine flourishes over the beams. Tiny hillside homes and wild flowers provide a simple foreground.