Yellow Submarine

Deb Cashatt

45 x 15 inches

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art quilts send messages, inviting discovery and analysis. By stitching bits of fabric together, I create intricate, puzzle-like shapes reminiscent of graphics used in both ancient Mayan script and modern computer icons. I employ these shapes, which I call symbographs, to tell stories of modern life. The compositions morph as I intuitively add more symbographs, often curating these graphic elements into tidy rectangular containers suggestive of comic books and Chinese curio boxes. Viewed from afar, each work of art can look as incomprehensible as a cryptograph. However, as you move closer, guitar chords, a drum kit, and a submarine emerge to make you chuckle and maybe even create your own story.  

MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES

Materials: Commercial fabric, cotton batting layered.  

Techniques: Machine pieced, machine quilted. 

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