Art Quilt: Beyond Our Lines

Beyond Our Lines

39 x  47 inches (100cm  x 120 cms

Transfer and monoprint on silk and cotton, collage techniques, machine and hand stitched.

$1600 USD
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This is what I wrote about this quilt when I made it for The Gold Coast Quilters Biennial Show at The Gold Coast Art Gallery.

My quilt is called Beyond The Lines, initially inspired from the poem Beyond Our Lines (text below),

I was walking on the beach when I first started to formulate the idea for this quilt.

It was also one of my earlier Beach Inspiration posts , you can read about here.

If you look “beyond the lines” you can sense greater complexities. mysteries and adventure.

The quilt is made from hand printed silk and cotton, some pieces were stitched by hand, some by machine and then printed over.

This was a highly focussed activity, sleep was a secondary consideration. It is amazing how a deadline gets me so focussed and the task completed.

Chris Parfitt, a fellow Aussie Blogger has said she would like to see the real quilts. Okay a little difficult to do this online, yet. I do have a solution of how you can see the real thing- Skype + video. Cool I thought, so here is the deal my sype ID is simple: suziecheel and you can contact me via my contact form or email me
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BEYOND OUR LINES

This is what I want to do
This is exactly how I want to live my life
Consciously taking risks and having a good time doing it
Expanding my total presence without embarrassment or denial of my power,
Your power, divine power – in this moment.
Putting everything right out here on the line
And then daring to really be myself.
Choosing to step beyond the lines I know and love so well
And deliberately risk everything I’ve build up so far to keep myself comfortable
But over and over and over Again and again
Until I experience my full potential
As a soul, as a teacher, as a woman, as a transformer.

I want to live this life – my life – to the fullest
And continually stretch and relax my boundaries out to include more.
Amongst other things I want to experience an unplanned moment
An unpremeditated, unemancipated, unexpected, uncontrolled moment.
And when it happens, I want to recognize it Let go, open to it
And release my pictures of what the successful moment looks like
And of how I should perform within that moment
And simply surrender and trust my unknown abilities
And let my spirit rush into that space and show itself
Fully, authentically, magically, miraculously, splendidly,
Wonder-fully – the works.

 And I want to be substantially different as a result
I expect that moment to make a difference to the rest of my life
And I want there to be a difference in the world because of the
choices made in that single moment
And, since I don’t know when that moment’s coming
I want to experience all moments as possible entry points –
Just in case this is IT –
And stay conscious and be present to myself, to you, to what’s
Happening now – within me and between us –
Along with all the possibilities of what can happen next.
I want to see clearly whatever’s going on and respond to it.

 And I don’t want to feel like I’m doing this on my own I want friends to help.
I want to feel close and touched, loved and empowered by God’s Living grace –
you folks
So that together we can celebrate our full power as women making a difference
Together we can celebrate our full power as men making a difference
And together we can apply our spiritual passion for life
And build a planet of light and transformation which really works
Within our lifetimes.

  - Joy Drake

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