Although I have known Julie Weinstein mostly as a graphic designer, I learned from many conversations over the years that she has experience in a variety of fields. Lately she has been concentrating on quilting.
I went to see the delightful pieces below at the Emerson Community Arts Center’s Earth Month exhibit, “Life on the Edge.” Completely charming. The panels were inspired by seeing birdwatchers and wondering if the birds watch the watchers. In one panel a woman is birdwatching with binoculars. In another, a bird lifts binoculars to study the woman.
The Umbrella website says, “This year’s theme, ‘Life on the Edge,’ invites us to consider those experiences and places where people and habitats intersect. Also called ecotones, liminal or transitional zones, these points of intersection can spawn collaboration, conflict, beauty, chaos, change, and more.” The show is up until May 5. More details here.
Interesting to see the word “liminal” used for the intersection of people and habitats. At Asakiyume’s blog, her literary readers use liminal and the word “interstitial” to refer to places between worlds and ways of being. Like the platforms where Harry Potter catches a train that ordinary people can’t see.
Come to think of it, that is not so different from the intersection of the natural world and the developed one the art show describes. It’s a place where you might see three large wild turkeys sashaying down the middle of a downtown street, as my husband and I did on a recent Sunday morning.
Quilts: Julie Weinstein
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Thank you for sharing
You are quite a quilter yourself, I see. I don’t quilt, but I have written a few posts about people who do. I was especially delighted recently when a quilting friend got a quilt into a craft-editing friend’s quilt book, forthcoming at Quarry Press.
Very cool. What is the writing on the quilts? I can’t quite read it. I love quilting partly because it can be old-fashioned or cutting edge, and it can even get all post-modern-ish, academic-ish with words like liminal and interstitial!
I should have copied down the words. I will try to get over there again to answer your question. My husband also wanted to know what it said.