No Words but Many Languages 24” x 12” Art Quilt 2024

Created as part of my SAQA KS/MO/OK Regional Exhibition in 2024, inspired by the living-language-land project (at living-language-land.org). That project, devised by a small group based out of the UK, involved people in other countries around the world. The result was a set of 26 words from endangered and minority languages, contributed by members of indigenous communities. Their goal was to reveal different ways of relating to land and nature, and enlarge the lexicon we can all draw from in reflecting on those relationships. The project was related to COP26 (a series of annual global climate negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)), with a hope of giving a global audience fresh inspiration for our environmental crisis.

We were asked to select a word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word, based on our own research, experiences and creative voice. Works could be a combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D.
This art quilt, No Words but Many Languages. Inspired by the word: No Word: A continent without words. Word Origin: No indigenous language, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Word Contributor: Neville Gabie.

There are no Indigenous people in Antarctica, but there are many languages. From the high-flying Albatrosses to the Weddell seals, to the iconic Orca killer whales, each with their own communication sounds. The wonderful colors of the Antarctica ice also speak with its myriads of hues and multicolor patterns.

Commercial fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. I used raw-edge applique and my Pigment Patchwork techniques to create this work.

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Created as part of my SAQA KS/MO/OK Regional Exhibition in 2024, inspired by the living-language-land project (at living-language-land.org). That project, devised by a small group based out of the UK, involved people in other countries around the world. The result was a set of 26 words from endangered and minority languages, contributed by members of indigenous communities. Their goal was to reveal different ways of relating to land and nature, and enlarge the lexicon we can all draw from in reflecting on those relationships. The project was related to COP26 (a series of annual global climate negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)), with a hope of giving a global audience fresh inspiration for our environmental crisis.

We were asked to select a word and create one or more art quilts inspired by that word, based on our own research, experiences and creative voice. Works could be a combination of 12” and/or 24”, either 2D or 3D.
This art quilt, No Words but Many Languages. Inspired by the word: No Word: A continent without words. Word Origin: No indigenous language, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Word Contributor: Neville Gabie.

There are no Indigenous people in Antarctica, but there are many languages. From the high-flying Albatrosses to the Weddell seals, to the iconic Orca killer whales, each with their own communication sounds. The wonderful colors of the Antarctica ice also speak with its myriads of hues and multicolor patterns.

Commercial fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. I used raw-edge applique and my Pigment Patchwork techniques to create this work.

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Dimensions 24 × 12 in

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