Unity Quilt Deconstruction and Reconstruction

For those of you that were at my last loop gallery show in June/July, I continue to work on my Unity Quilt, which is a collaboration between the public and myself.  As a bit of a refresher and for those of you who are familiar with the project and for those of you who are not familiar with this work, I had invited and continue to invite the public at large to contribute their hand written highest 'truths' or those guiding principles that help them achieve their highest potential. I had also created a mixed media installation piece to receive more hand written 'truth offerings' from gallery visitors so that the quilt could continue to grow  and circulate beyond loop gallery.

The quilt was still in progress at loop gallery with the possibility of also further modifying it.  As time wore on, I was visualizing different ways of creating each quilt block, so I decided to deconstruct  the 'Unity Quilt' that I had begun for my last show at loop gallery last June/July and as a result I am currently reconstructing it.  As part of the reconstruction phase, I decided to create blocks of repeated designs that I alternate between each of the 'truth' blocks.  

The motif for these blocks, is one that has been repeating itself in my work for the last few years and has come to represent that divine spark that resides in each and everyone of us.  Indeed in everything!  At the core of the design is the seed of life and surrounding it is a DNA strand.
I have included Fibonacci's number sequences beneath each motif which continues to grow with each individual block that I create. These sequences are included because they seem to draw upon that hidden truth, that all things in nature and indeed the entire universe began with a single point and their very proportions are constantly being repeated everywhere and in everything!

My Studio

The logical place to begin my first blog entry is to introduce you to my studio, this is where my all my creative ideas take shape.

The first photograph was taken within the first few weeks of moving to my new condo loft studio in Saskatoon at the end of April 2011.  It looks so tidy in this early photograph.  Trust me however, this is not the way it looks any more!  The only time it looks this good is if I have an open studio, then I spend the entire day before the opening madly cleaning and reorganizing! 

So... just in case you should decide to pop over and visit me at the studio, I have decided to provide you with a couple of pictures that reflect the normal state of my working space, which is so much more realsitic on an ongoing basis since I am involved with a number of different projects at any one given time.  This also relieves me of the responsibility of feeling that I must keep things more orderly, because after all this is a working studio and when it comes to any kind of cleaning, I would much prefer to make art!

Those tables are a little neater than usual and often get configured differently, depending on what I am doing.
Looks like I have room to serve you some tea too.  I hope you do drop by!