Over twenty years ago, with the birth of my first son, I start making quilts, drawn by their beauty and usefulness and the quiet time found in the making. I use only found materials, and often hear this is part of the quilt making tradition. That's only partly true; the Victoria and Albert Museum first collected quilts primarily for their luscious velvets and silks. Later, they showcased quilts for their industrial cottons, complex designs, or story-telling motifs that are biblical, personal, and historical — challenging the enduring association of quilts with thrift. Today though, there's an overabundance of used material out there, exquisite and ordinary — and the surprise of those materials is opportunity for visual serendipity. Here, the colour-soaked pieces suggest a topographical map of fields of land, consecrated to the making of unimaginable quantities of textiles.