• Size: 36 x 44 inches

• Materials: Cotton fabrics

• Techniques: Improvisational piecing

• Piecing: Machine pieced

• Quilting: Machine quilted

• Backing / Binding: Cotton backing with a facing

This piece explores the tension between visibility and restraint, between those who choose to emerge and those who remain quiet, contained, or unseen. At its core, the quilt reflects on creative identity and the different ways people navigate expression, risk, and belonging.

The central triangle, built from saturated color and ordered geometry, represents creative energy that has chosen to surface. It is deliberate, structured, and visibly present. The surrounding grayscale fields act as both frame and pressure, spaces that can either support emergence or quietly suppress it. The contrast is intentional. Color does not exist without context, and emergence rarely happens without resistance.

In the lower left quadrant, a small grouping of color appears embedded within gray and white blocks. This section represents creative people who carry color internally but choose, or feel compelled, to remain muted. Sometimes this restraint comes from fear, sometimes from safety, sometimes from circumstance. The color is still present, but it is contained and partially hidden.

The remaining forms reflect balance, order, and repetition. These structures can either protect creativity or confine it. Throughout the piece, I am interested in how systems, expectations, and self imposed limits shape creative expression. Not everyone emerges in the same way, and not everyone is ready to be fully seen.

This work is not a judgment. It is an observation. Creativity exists on a spectrum, and visibility is as complex and personal as the act of making itself.

Exhibitions

• Bennington Quiltfest, Bennington, Vermont
  Exhibited in 2023 Vendor’s Choice Award
  Awarded by A Sense of Wonder Studio