Fool's Journey Art Quilt

Finishing up a once a month, 6 month art quilt class with Jane LaFazio.  This is quilt # 3, entitled 'Fool's Journey' consisting of 6 mini 'quilts' attached to a 12.75" x 19" velvet and felt backing.  Jane is a phenomenal mixed media artist working predominantly in fabric and cloth. Each class was a different type of art quilt technique, this one : 'working tiny' was my favorite.  I left most of the edges unfinished and the felt backing was a sturdy and easy to work with canvas.  The two 'faux postage' images are adaptations of the male and female fool cards from my Tarot deck, printed on silk. The stars are from a handmade stamp on hand dyed fabric.  I decided to break up the linear with a meandering path of silk embroidered stars on a piece of vintage velvet. Other details: antique buttons, a crow button, botanical cactus prints on silk, hand painted silk ribbon, a brass bell and some text from a curious little pamphlet dated 1924 and inexplicably named:
 "Are the Planets Inhabited?".

Illustrations for the new book: Waking With Thoreau

Waking With Thoreau, Lungs of the Planet and Other Possibilities
is a new book by Canadian author, Jeffrey Riordan Hinich. 

Illustrated by Leslie Anne Cochran
Published by Dreamythology

Limited signed 1st editions available:
Please visit wakingwiththoreau

Moose under the moon

Digital collage  for writer Jeffrey Riordan Hinich  wakingwiththoreau.com

His story is about crossing paths with four moose on a winter moonlit night in northern Ontario, just recently.