Code
Triptych 2012-2014
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Mysterious Red Decimals, no quilting 2012
45” x 56”
Why are decimals so scary?
BarCodeOrganic
2014
72” x 56"
The barcode or UPC code was patented in 1952 by Joseph Woodland. The patent number is at the bottom of the barcode. This ubiquitous rectangular icon is scanned 5 B times/day, and has changed modern commerce.
Today organic is all the rage. How do we resolve the concepts of industrial versus organic production? So much irony in the labeling of organic products with a UPC code.
My interest is in modern icons. These particular modern innovations and discoveries have changed our lives in fundamental if not revolutionary ways.
Now begins a triptyk of quilts bases on "codes" starting with BarCode, then BinaryCode, then GeneticCode.
BinaryCode
2014
54” x 45”
Finalist, Modern Quilt Challenge - American Quilt Society
Des Moines IA 2013
Honorable Mention, Portsmouth Arts Guild, RI July 2013
Selected for publication in Modern Patchwork Magazine
Exhibited in Veldhoven, Netherlands, an entrant in the
European Open Championships 2014
A binary code is a system of two digits that is used to transfer information digitally. Two color quilts in red/or blue and white were popular in the 1900s. This is a quilt that synthesizes the dual concepts of two colors and two critical numbers.
GeneticCode
2014
60" x 44"
Exhibited at ArtCenter Manatee, "Florida Living" February 2014
I wanted to do something with a collection of silk ties that I inherited from my father. That got me to thinking about inheritance and the importance of "getting good genes." Then I started thinking about the human genome, which is made up of pairs of chromosomes. This quilt demonstrates a progression of 18 chromosome pairs which are called autosomes, and finally the sex chromosome.
GeneticCode was revised in 2017 into a utility quilt and no longer exists as presented above. The chromosomal elements were excised. The negative or leftover shapes were cut into triangles and sewn onto commercial bedding.
Binary_Code, Revised
2015
44” x 43”
Exhibited at the Sarasota Friendship Knot Show, March 2015
