A 2014 residency in the Port Coquitlam City Centre, Port Coquitlam, BC

Abstracted Quilts was one my first series made with re-purposed materials, exploring usage, value and waste. I continue to explore these themes in my work, including with Library Taxidery. 

Abstracted Quilts reflects modern material abundance through the lens of traditional textile practices. The clothing, fabric and paint were variously rejected (as worn out, damaged or mis-tinted) but retain their practical value, and as such the pieces reflect the practice of quilting. Each piece is a picture as well as a collection, a grouping of previously unrelated articles. As a result of this re-purposing, the materials change function, meaning and identity. Many of the clothing pieces particularly press this dynamic. So familiar to us in a different context, they oscillate between abstract shapes and objective articles.