Dense bamboo at the Li River in China. A forest of stalks blocked out the sunlight and felt looming, a bit dangerous. In this created image, there is a poet’s gate, a shadowy bit of light near the height of the bamboo.
“Grasses bury the Riverbank,
Rain darkens the village.
The temple is lost in tall bamboo ---
I cannot find the gate.”
-Su Tung-po (1037-1101)
“Grasses bury the Riverbank,
Rain darkens the village.
The temple is lost in tall bamboo ---
I cannot find the gate.”
-Su Tung-po (1037-1101)
Materials
Cottons, including hand dyes, African; batting, Pellon stiffener; texturing threads
Techniques
Machine piecing, a little bit of machine appliqué, machine quilting