Dayenu: The Leftovers Part I

My exhibit Dayenu: It Would Have Been Enough includes fourteen art pieces, 28 flags, eighteen Leftover Quilts, and two texts, totally over 70 individual objects. The next three blog entries will introduce The Leftovers.

A safe practice for quilting is to have more than enough yardage on hand to implement each project. There is always a question of what to do with the extras after the original project is completed. For Dayenu, I wanted to use every bit of the fabric. My solution was to fashion additional quilts until all unused fabrics were depleted. The Leftovers is the 15th piece for the exhibition; an assemblage of those quilts.

SilkDenim Scraps. 58” X 65”. 
Baby’s Blocks. 80”H X 68”W.
Machine Pieced, Hand Quilted Sweaters.
Kaleidoscope. Remnants from Zen Circles. 67” W X 69” H
Sunburst. Tee-Shirt Remnants from Trees of Life.  71” X 71”.
Chakra Stars. Remnants from Trees of Life. 74” X 93”.
Tree Of Life 2021. Tee-Shirt Remnants. 68”H X 57”W. 

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Pittsburgh-based fiber artist, Louise Silk, creates art that combines aesthetics and functionality with meaning and memories. From the influence of a 1972 MS Magazine article to the current SILKDENIM label, her quilt experiences culminate in a display of her particular capacity to use her patchwork skills to piece together just about anything into an aesthetic meaningful whole.

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