Projects
the American Context
Pieces of fabric from used clothes made into quilts of iconic images from American Art. This is a series that colides quilts and painting, taking techniques from both and combining them to talk about history and contemporary image making.
[The-American-Context-#5]-American-Gothic
90" X 90" 2010 This is the 5th piece In the American Context series where I am working with American Art icons on traditional american patchwork patterns. I have constructed the quilt base out of used and recycled clothes, linens, etc. The subjects are life size and reflect a contemporary demographic in the style of the one depicted on the original painting from which the title and pose are taken.
[The American Context #1] American Gothic Detail
This is a detail shot of the larger quilt I made as a part of the series The American Context
[The American Context-#5] Flag
9 feet by 17 feet [108" by 204"] Part of The American Context series. This is a flag made from a flag. the original flag was four times the area of this flag. 20 feet by 30 feet. I found it at the Goodwill. ready to be thrown away. I used the good pieces of material from it and gave it a new life as a flag but different. The flag you see is an adaptation of its former self. This particular flag flew somewhere over the heads of men and women serving in one branch of the government or military in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This quilt took the discarded used and ripped flag and reformed the pieces into a new life and a new flag. This is a piece of my series “The American Context” in which I combine traditional quilting techniques with American iconography. I was intending to construct a flag from used clothes and textiles when I came across the original flag. Which is a surprise as those particular flags are discarded in very specific ways. So to find it ripped and donated was unusual. I took the flag down into its material and using one of the most basic quilting techniques sewed it and quilted it into a new life. I made log cabin blocks and turned them 45degrees so they would make stripes. This flag creates a great discourse on use and refuse. Blogged: blog.lukehaynes.com/archives/569
Rockin out Fourth of July style!
This flag is a quilt made from the Material of a much larger Garrison flag I found discarded at the Goodwill.
