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Art can be both affordable and beautiful.
This is the home for unique, one-of-a-kind, hand-made quilts. The works you see here and in the Gallery weren't created by piecing together blocks, squares, rectangles or triangles, and they weren't made by using time-worn patterns. These quilts are original, incisive, striking and fresh, and they're filled with glorious colors and textures. In short, they are works of art executed in fabric and don't look at all like your grandmother's quilts! As you explore this site, you'll see art of all sizes, created in a variety of media and subject matter and in a broad range of prices. Here are works you can hang almost anywhere, put in a book, write on or sit on a shelf. Your options are limited only by your imagination.
Each work of art has a story behind it and so does this site.
In addition to providing several images, I've given you some brief background information on each work so that you can better understand what inspired me to create it. I've often found that the story behind the work can be as interesting or revealing as the work itself. I launched Getting To Home long before "bailout" became part of our everyday vocabulary because I felt that in some way, my art and the stories they told could help others. "Getting To Home" was a play on words. In baseball, getting to home is the goal. For most people, "home" means a literal or figurative place of safety, protection and security. Home is where we feel comfortable and loved. Home is where there's freedom from fear, freedom from the feeling that we are powerless to change something or that we're "stuck." Fear is believing that there's no hope. Fear spawns crisis, and many people are living in crisis. Fear has so blinded them that they don't know how to get to "home."
The real crisis isn't foreclosures, banks or oil prices. It's fear.
History may best remember the first Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his proclamation in the depths of the Great Depression that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Fear, he said, was a "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes" and he called upon Americans to act as one:
...we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made...
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The solution lies in creating a synergy of hope.
As I was driving around one day, I asked myself "what is it that people need?" The answer that I got was that people needed hope, just as they needed it in 1933. How could I provide that? The answer that evolved over time was art. It's one form of energy that can heal in different ways and at all different levels. Energy is all around us – in light, color and in all works of creation. Everything we do, feel and think sends out energy and receives energy in return. Because we're all connected to the same network, the energy each of us generates goes out into this network and impacts others. If energy can destroy hope, then energy can also rebuild it. It's just a matter of how we choose to use it. Hope, like fear, builds on itself. Over time in an environment that fosters growth, hope will strengthen and spread. The more widely it spreads, the greater the likelihood of creating a powerful and positive synergy.
Take a look around here and take with you a seed of hope you can plant to help create that synergy. |
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