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Mermaid Marisol, 35x70, June 2019, commercial and upcycled textiles
In the book Julián Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love, a little boy imagines the members of his abuela’s water aerobics class as mermaids, because it’s not just slender white girls who get to be magical creatures. With the permission of the illustrator and in a nod to Sunbonnet Sue, I created Mermaid Marisol based on the original drawings. The figures are hand-appliqués and the hand-guided quilting through wool batting creates currents and eddies from their dancing. The binding is a metallic shot cotton appropriate to the brilliance of the story being told within its frame.
Mermaid Marisol, 35x70, June 2019, commercial and upcycled textiles
In the book Julián Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love, a little boy imagines the members of his abuela’s water aerobics class as mermaids, because it’s not just slender white girls who get to be magical creatures. With the permission of the illustrator and in a nod to Sunbonnet Sue, I created Mermaid Marisol based on the original drawings. The figures are hand-appliqués and the hand-guided quilting through wool batting creates currents and eddies from their dancing. The binding is a metallic shot cotton appropriate to the brilliance of the story being told within its frame.