Stone Speak 12’ 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, Stone Speak. Inspired by the word: Hyká: name; stone; speech. Word Origin: Muysk Kubun, Central Columbia. Word Contributor: Diana Castillo and Michael Ramírez, Comunidad Muisca CONA, Pedagogías Ancestrales.

The first thing that came to me when I saw this word translation in the living-language-land project was the beautiful pictographs painted in remote locations around the world. Man has a great desire to communicate and the ingenuity of using natural pigments to paint symbols to communicate stories is very powerful. Actual pictograph photos inspired the stylized images on this piece.

Fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. Whole-cloth using a resist and Pigment Patchwork techniques (fabric, pigments, stitching)

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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, Stone Speak. Inspired by the word: Hyká: name; stone; speech. Word Origin: Muysk Kubun, Central Columbia. Word Contributor: Diana Castillo and Michael Ramírez, Comunidad Muisca CONA, Pedagogías Ancestrales.

The first thing that came to me when I saw this word translation in the living-language-land project was the beautiful pictographs painted in remote locations around the world. Man has a great desire to communicate and the ingenuity of using natural pigments to paint symbols to communicate stories is very powerful. Actual pictograph photos inspired the stylized images on this piece.

Fabric, polyester batting, cotton/poly & monofilament thread, pigments, satin cording. Whole-cloth using a resist and Pigment Patchwork techniques (fabric, pigments, stitching)

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Dimensions 12 × 12 in

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