Choosing Calm

This piece is made from a single piece of cloth. The intensive hand stitching creates the lines of different colors. While quilting it in my lap, I stitched vertical lines and assumed it would hang vertically. But when it was complete, I turned it sideways. The new orientation immediately calmed me. Despite many, many hours of viewing it the other way, I opted for the horizontal orientation, creating the sense of a horizon stretching to infinity.