Enlightenment

The machine embroidery and repetitive flame shapes in the design of this quilt enhance the explosive visual image radiating from the center. The energy and movement visible here are achieved by the use of color overlays, especially the orange and yellow on-point frame contrasting with the dark square beneath.

"Following my training and practice as a research scientist, my approach to quilting is decidedly experimental. As scientists seek for truth and understanding in small, well-defined inquiries, quilters may piece together bits and pieces into an artistic theory of life.

My quilts are autobiographical in that real life issues are always represented in the overriding themes of the work, although it may bot be recognizable to anyone other than myself. Indeed, the generation of real life solutions seems intimately connected to resolutions of artistic and technical problems during the art process.

As I work, I disassemble a problem and reassemble a solution, both in the quilt and in life. The name of any piece can immediately pinpoint a date, location, and concern in my memory."

-Vickie Hallmark