All Seeing
Status: Completed
Year(s): Started 2017 · Completed 2024
Overview
All Seeing explores the pull between structure and perception. Built from repeated half-square triangles, the composition draws the eye toward a central focal point while color and geometry create a steady visual rhythm. The surrounding dark field absorbs and softens that intensity, allowing moments of color to emerge and recede. This piece reflects my interest in how repetition, restraint, and contrast shape the way we look and how meaning forms over time.
Finished Top
Closeup of the quilt back
Quilting in progress
Featured as the lead marketing image for the Billings Farm & Museum Vermont Quilt Sampler exhibition.
Back of the quilt
Quilting in-progress
Selfie with quilt top
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Size: 48 × 49 inches
Materials: Cotton
Techniques: IImprovisational Half Square Triangles (HST)
Backing / Binding:Cotton backing with facing binding
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All Seeing explores my interest in geometry, color, and how the eye moves across a surface. I built the piece using half square triangles, creating a repeating structure that radiates outward from a central “eye.”
There is a strong sense of order in the layout, but the color shifts keep it from feeling rigid. I was especially interested in how the eye could feel like it is emitting light, with the surrounding forms carrying that energy outward.
The black field acts as both space and boundary. Through dense quilting, I worked to create a subtle dithering effect, allowing the color to feel like it is breaking apart and dissolving into the dark.
This piece is really about perception. How structure, color, and repetition can guide the eye and create a sense of depth without a fixed story.
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Process Notes
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how the quilt evolved
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Exhibitions
Abstractions in Fabric (solo exhibition), Castleton Bank Gallery, Rutland, Vermont — 2018
Billings Farm & Museum Vermont Quilt Sampler, Woodstock, Vermont — 2024