Let Out Your Inner Animal : Innovation Quilt art

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artemix — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:27:29 GMT

bees

artemix — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:23:43 GMT

Floating Sea Turtles

sinclairartquilts — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:59:12 GMT

I have always loved the water. Being under the sea floating along the bottom of the ocean where life above cannot touch me.

My inner animal comes out in water, it allows me to still the mind and all those intuitive thoughts and ideas come floating through. I have always been in tuned with turtles, there lives seem effortless, which is how people often see me.

Sea turtles, are one of the few animals that eat sea grass. Sea grass needs to be constantly cut short to help it grow across the sea floor. Sea turtles act as grazing animals that cut the grass short and help maintain the health of the sea grass beds. Sea grass beds provide breeding and developmental grounds for numerous species of fish, shellfish and crustaceans. Without sea grass beds, many marine species humans harvest would be lost, as would the lower levels of the food chain.

I like the thought of floating and grazing for a living. It seems peaceful.

Under the African waters

braidandstitch — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:19:33 GMT

This quilt is my idea of under water water life. A lot of the fabrics I used came from African prints, using hand dyed batiks felt so unleashing releasing me into a water world of color. This quilt is glass beaded all over to give that illusion of bubbles which the fish blow while they breathe, with lots of thread painting I gave it lots of character. I believe this is how the under water life of the West African coast of Africa looks like.