A Little Piece of Mind
For a few years now, I have been tracking the infiltration – often very positive – of modern techniques into craft forms. Quiltmaking is one area that has been at the forefront of this with young designers such as Julie Floersch exploring, pushing and redefining the language of the medium. While these designers are forward thinking, atraditional and historic aspect still remain through the use of natural materials and an insistence on age-old hand craft. Although this exciting tendency is widely acknowledged, no one it seems has been prepared to champion this within the creative industries or on a worldwide, collaborative level. So this idea became an important challenge for me; to take, and then piece together, seemingly disparate influences and inputs to make a coherent, influential output. As an aesthetic philosophy, this has engaged me and my creative collaborators.
The premise was simple. Leading creatives were asked to supply ‘a little piece of mind’ in the form of a 6 inch square of fabric. From a diverse array of such contributionsby iconos and innovators, Floersch has composed a quilt that reinforces the fact that all it takes to make a big difference is a little personal time.
