I piece together a quilt top using found materials. The truth is, textile industries pollute, and cloth so pervasive and disposable, it's invisible. When a painting is made, there’s always the squeeze of pigment from a tube, choices about composition, colour, form. Here, materials become conspicuous as scraps are considered for combinations that duel and bounce around. Motifs speak to the idea of life-forms, landscapes, florals, water, air, humans, beasts as well as microscopic single-celled animals. When quilts are celebrated as Art, it's often for the two-dimensional quality of their surface, and where flatness mimics the painted canvas. All the same, quilts have their own history, language and hierarchy. To make one, thread is used to bring together layers of materials. The stitches bring stability, build form, dimension, depth, and individual marks are brought to the surface. When finished, this stitched object is 90" X 80" in size.