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Huge Flocks of Rising Rooks Forsake Their Food
39.5 in
x
27.5 in
x
0.3 in
(100 cm x 70 cm x 1 cm)
Year
2017
Price
$0.00
I made a series of works based on Dryden's translation of Virgil's, "The Georgics", and my quilt was inspired by the rhyming couplet:
'Huge flocks of rising rooks forsake their food
And, crying, seek the shelter of the woods'.
This section of the poem describes an impending storm and the attempts of living creatures to reach safety. My piece depicts the storm, the woods and the rooks panicking in their flight to safety.
'Huge flocks of rising rooks forsake their food
And, crying, seek the shelter of the woods'.
This section of the poem describes an impending storm and the attempts of living creatures to reach safety. My piece depicts the storm, the woods and the rooks panicking in their flight to safety.
Materials
Fabric hand painted with acrylic paint - sky, ground and trees; rooks stenciled with Markal paint sticks applied through my own stencils.
Techniques
Free machine stitched throughout.