Dusk

My choice of the artist was Russian painter Arkhip Kuindzhi (1841- 1910), whose style was realism. I am not copying his works but only following his style that had a focus on light effects. In all his paintings light plays a very important role.

For 7 years I’ve been mesmerized by the photo of Richard Doughty, published in AramcoWorld magazine in 2015:

In this photo walls, windows, doors and satellite dishes tessellate at twilight into a patchwork pattern in the madinah, or walled old city, of Fez, Morocco, as a pedestrian passes into view along one of the city’s typically narrow stone streets.

I always wanted to make a quilt of the full size of this photo but it seemed unimaginable. This challenge gave me a chance to make a smaller version, where I used only a small part of the photo:

Still it was hard work to cut all the pieces and understand in what order to fuse them, and how to get the light to shine and reflect from the walls.

I used all hand dyed cotton fabrics. Everything is fused with Wonder Under. Densely machine quilted.