wax quilt

This is a wall hanging made with panels of hand knit raw silk covered with beeswax. Loosely based on traditional quilt blocks, the form reveals the nuanced textured of the fiber and its subtle tonal shifts. The heat of the melted wax brings out the color of the silk, a reaction to the seracin, the glue that holds the cocoon together. Wax and silk are both excretions from insects and the quilt has the look of a sloughed skin pinned to a wall, bringing with it ideas of blanketing and covering.

2010