Afterimage - Quilt of the Week

 
"After Image," 13" x 10", handmade by Pam Geisel, 2020

I thought this piece looked like a sun but it was obviously the wrong colors so then I thought it looked like the afterimage of a sun, what you see when you close your eyes after you look at the sun.

Afterimage is defined "a visual sensation occurring after stimulation by its external cause has ceased." Sometimes I feel that all art is an afterimage, it's a visual sensation that is left after the process of creating art has ceased.

The green fabric at the top is a sheer fabric so you can see part of the image from the fabric behind it, also kind of an afterimage.

Because this is the Quilt of the Week, it is 10% off the original price of $90 through 11/7/21 if you purchase directly from me. Details can be found here.

Afterimage

Afterimage," 13" x 10", made by Pam Geisel

Earlier this year one of my quilting friends passed away and her family passed along some of her quilting supplies, including three small pieces that she had started but not finished. I am not sure what her plans were for these pieces but they spoke to me so I decided to finish them in a way that would honor her. I also wanted to try and only use embellishments from her stash. This is the third of the three; the other two are "Forget-me-nots" and "Relics."

The green background on this piece is somewhat sheer, so I put another piece of fabric behind it that had some dots and firework-type images on it. It's subtle but you can see them if you look closely.

I thought the main shape looked like a sun so I added some glass beads as the sun's rays, although it wasn't the right color to be a sun so I named it "Afterimage," which is defined "a visual sensation occurring after stimulation by its external cause has ceased."

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