Tonight is the opening of the Muse show in Durango at the Art Center. I am very sad that I am missing it. A friend of mine is on the board at the Museum and she said that the show is having a great response with the public. There are so many wonderful pieces from the members of Front Range Creative Quilters. My piece Fire Season #1 was inspired by a comment from a Quick Mart employee in Frisco, Colorado. He said that it was very amusing that tourist in the area were coming in to buy gas and asking what variety the beautiful red fur trees were. Of course they were the trees that were dying from the pine beetle disease. The Veridian Green trees of the old forrest were such a contrast to the dying ones in their Rusty Red coloration. The contrast of dark and light against the blue sky floated around in my brain for days. The stark contrast with the lingering Winter snow brought out colors to their maximum contrast and texture. Then the whole composition came to me in a flash. It was late spring and the Aspen Green was so startling. The colors are changing and will not go back to what I have grown up with for a very long time. I may not see it return in my lifetime. What I am embracing in this piece is "change". You can't stop it: you just have to move with it.
This is a detail of the stitching.
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